Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these skits, John Williams turns to advantage the tenseness which marred his other performances this summer. As a victim of jealousy, he brings to the Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams parodies an aggressiveness which is a pleasant relief from the fops who cavorted through the impotent summer session on the main stage...
...current play, though, may be just right for the season. It's improbable whirl of froth is a pleasant diversion from the gloom of the impending exam period
...Kremlin are going to be guided by their firm faith in the triumphal spread of their doctrine across the globe. On the other hand, I do not think that the present Soviet leaders will bring on war except by miscalculation or mistake. But we must dismiss as a pleasant daydream any thought of peaceful coexistence and apply ourselves to the challenge of all-out competitive coexistence-competition for survival...
Uncanned Covenant. The choir has never been better. When Condie took over, he auditioned everyone in it and let 75 go at once. "It wasn't a pleasant thing to do," he says. Now there are auditions at least every two years. Rehearsals are held only two hours a week, but the choir never actually rehearses the entire radio program as it is broadcast. Condie tapes rehearsals, plays them through to himself, and corrects flaws next time around...
...month for nothing. Would you ever in your secret soul forgive me?" Though he was bombarding Charlotte with passionate prose at the time, he described her to his actress friend with clinical objectivity as "a ladylike person at whom nobody would ever look twice. . . . Perfectly placid and proper and pleasant...