Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Child Is Waiting. There are 5,700,000 "mental defectives" in the U.S., and this picture forces U.S. moviegoers to look them and their problems in the face. The theme is not pleasant, but the script (Abby Mann), the direction (John Cassavetes), and the principal performances (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Bruce Ritchey) are honest and moving...
...successes, its career has been scarred by long periods of turbulence. Seven seasons under the pleasant direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos dimmed its luster, with audience, musicians and critics all bickering over the orchestra's wayward course. When Bernstein took over in 1958, the Philharmonic began to recapture the audience that it had not had since its "Golden Era" under Toscanini in the '30s. As the only American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra, Bernstein brought the Philharmonic new esprit and quieted its cranky audience. But soon his St. Vitus conducting technique upset even his fans; to many...
...aversion to everyday American life drove John Anthony West to the Spanish island of Ibiza, and West's first collection of short stories may convince other Americans that they should go as far. West has a way of making American amusements seem as pleasant as murder-which would be standard fare from an angry young author were it not so hilarious. For West writes in a borderland between horror and humor that leaves a reader laughing and shuddering at the same time...
Sivard at his best is in the tradition of Rousseau, with a sophisticated innocence and an ability to capture in a wink a mood, a moment, and to make of an exaggerated reality a pleasant fantasy...
...action is tauntingly simple. A pleasant fellow named Peter is sitting on a bench in Central Park one Sunday afternoon when up comes an unpleasant youth named Jerry. "I've been to the zoo," the newcomer offers, then insinuates himself upon the helpless victim in an effort to establish genuine communication. He ends with a long story about his unsuccessful attempt to make friends with a dog by half killing it. Seeing that his efforts to reach Peter are also a failure, Jerry offers himself as a sacrificial dog, impaling himself on a knife he has dared the older...