Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edition, aimed at a Western readership, was never much more than a slenderized Eastern Times, exported from New York. It had neither the hefty attributes of the original nor the local attractions of a truly local paper. "One thing that used to make my job just a little less pleasant," said Executive Editor Scott Newhall of the San Francisco Chronicle, "was that people would ask me why we weren't more like the new York Times. Since they started this Western Edition, I haven't heard that question once...
...Critic Walter Kerr says, that the male is not a homosexual. As another critic has seriously suggested, the next step in the theater will be to represent sexual intercourse onstage. Meanwhile, the forthcoming musical, What Makes Sammy Run?, at least represents how to feel about it. In a pleasant but unmistakable song, one of Sammy's girls croons, without reference to love or even to passion...
...Tall buildings rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from...
...Russian black market. But alas, it turns out that Burgess takes his main joke seriously. He offers the perverted antique dealer as a disapproving symbol of Britain Today. Trying to be urbane about his (and England's) present predicament, the poor man says: "You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive." "Or like being impotent," says one Russian interrogator drily. The Englishman has the grace to blush...
Miracle Flight Diet. For one thing, says Miss Hadley, "more unusual, unexpected and downright pleasant things happen when you travel with your children than when you travel alone. Children have a way of making friends unselfconsciously both for themselves and for you. . . . People everywhere go out of their way to be helpful and kind to families with children." Traveling together also produces the treasure of the shared experience. And for those experiences you don't want to share with the small fry, Mother Hadley waxes ecstatic over Europe's part-time-child-care facilities. "Accustomed to baby sitters...