Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicals--even those have aged poorly, as Yankees has--can provide a lot of theatrical lightning. All they need to work is plenty of love, speed and style. In the Agassiz Yankees, the love and speed are there; it's the lack of style that often sends this enormously pleasant show into the doldrums...
...Crimson golf team won its ninth consecutive match of the season last Friday with an easy 6-1 victory over Holy Cross at the Pleasant Valley Country Club in Worcester...
...Place. A made-in-America company might bring more rhythmic pizazz to Calendar; none but the Royal could evoke the special virtues of Enigma Variations. Based on the orchestral score by Sir Edward Elgar, the work is a nostalgic visualization of a half-remembered spirit and place: green and pleasant England at the end of Victoria's reign. Before a stunning set by Julia Trevelyan Oman that at once suggests the languor of an autumnal afternoon and the oaken mellowness of a Worcestershire estate, the Royal's dancers bring to life the Malvern Circle of friends whom Elgar...
...songs essentially trivial. There really is not way of getting around it. Dylan seems too happy to be able to create masterpieces and one is glad only for his sake. There will be more records in the future, no doubt, but will they not be like Nashville Skyline, pleasant an perfect but low-level? And to think I almost didn't believe once the old saw that artists have to suffer or they're not artists...
...defined as those moments whose determining conditions are taking shape in the moment presently being visited. We say the future comes "after" now.) If we can understand time to be an entity that always exists in its entirety, then the irritating concept of free will dissolves into pleasant nothingness...