Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch is good, but the kids, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna almost steal the show in this pleasant screen version of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel...
...problem of "most favored nation" status which, if eliminated, could sharply boost import levies on Yugoslavia's $30 million annual trade with the U.S. Rusk could offer no assurances that the clause would be restored, since the decision is up to Congress. On the whole, it was a pleasant if inconclusive chat. Then, less than 24 hours after he arrived, the Secretary of State, his wife, and 28 aides who had accompanied him on the five-nation trip, packed up and headed for Washington...
...Crimson lightweights are an experienced and talented squad. With lettermen, including five from last winning Goldthwaite Cup crew, Turning to their oars this year, coach Cabot's pleasant problem is an of talent. As a result, has been no definite line between varsity and JV boats. Cabot has able to experiment with different and still continue to win . Saturday afternoon should see Crimson in triumph flashing when three crews sweep past the MIT boathouse...
Education, we say, must stress individuality, but by this we mean something quite different from the concept of privacy and withdrawal, which in fact is but a pleasant term for what should more accurately be called "atomism...
Even though James gave primacy to pure, raw values, he did not disparage consistency as an ideal. On occasion critics have accused him of advocating belief in whatever seems most pleasant at a given moment. James considered this accusation an "impudent slander" involving a fundamental misunderstanding of pragmatism. He visualized himself, in fact, as pent in "between the whole body of funded truths squeezed from the past and the coercions of the world of sense about...