Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Independent: the weekly paper. The Indy mainly covers the major issues on campus, and generally has about two in-depth pieces, a page of news briefs, and pleasant reviews. It was conceived in 1969 by Harvard alumni and professors as an alternative to the more leftist Crimson, and its contents are middling to conservative...
...tale into Jailbird, his first book in three years, which will be published this fall. His next book may well take longer to write since Vonnegut, summering on Long Island, has taken to canoeing just as he did as a boy on an Indiana lake. "It is especially pleasant," he explains, resting on his literary oar, "not to paddle but to let the wind take you. It blows you into this bird and that bird...
...They are responding to commands from a bearded therapist who soothingly urges them to "draw the healing spheres" to them. After playing a tape of Beethoven's Pastoral, the therapist leads his subjects into a mental pasture, where they are to find a cool stream and feel a pleasant breeze...
...possible to mount a Twelfth Night that displays marked sad, bitter, even tragic undercurrents; it is an extraordinarily multivalent script. Freedman has chosen to concentrate on the pleasant and sunny aspects. Although there may be too much sugar-coating for some tastes, there is no denying that Freedman has turned out a smooth, elegant and delicious dessert...
...Schmidt's bias gives his book its power. His knowledge and understanding--both of the folkies and their detractors--lends credibility and a certain ghostliness to his recall. Baby Let Me Follow You Down succeeds where many "rockumentary" efforts fail--these are not idle memories scribbled down for pleasant reading; they are real experiences...