Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, in turn, will this produce in the way of results and consequences? Since I am not trying to avoid difficult questions, I will admit that the results may not be entirely pleasant. Perhaps exclusion of CIA personnel might mean a gradual cutting off of federal funds for the EARC, or the rise of barriers to Harvard faculty desiring to enter government service, or a deficiency in the ability of "analysts" and others to correctly determine foreign policy. I hope I have accurately anticipated your worst fears, for to me, at least, none of these would be particularly distressing...
Sharing the stage with Hammond is a quiet guitar-strumming singer, Matt Alexander. His songs are mainly his own, with a heavy Paul Simon influence seeping through. Blending his thoughts on Cambridge mornings with warnings about love, Alexander's compositions are pleasant enough, if not terribly memorable...
...Pleasant is probably the best way to describe the whole Cabaret. This is Dudley House's style and not everybody's, but I reveled...
...Alexander Dubček, it seemed to be a somewhat more pleasant journey to Moscow than his last one-when he went as a virtual prisoner of Soviet commanders who had invaded his country a few days earlier. Instead of being whisked secretly onto an airplane, Dubček last week chatted amiably in the Prague airport lounge with a group of his Czechoslovak colleagues. They had come to see Dubček, Premier Oldřich Cerník and Deputy Premier Gustav Husák off for another round of talks in the Kremlin. But throughout the pleasantries...
Mailer is scarcely more sparing of other Democrats. He writes of Senator George McGovern: "A Christian sweetness came off him like a psychic aroma-he was a fine and pleasant candidate but for that sweetness. It was excessive. Not artificial, but excessive, as the smell of honeysuckle can be excessive." He describes Gene McCarthy's followers: "Their common denominator seemed to be in some blank area of the soul, a species of disinfected idealism which gave one the impression among them of living in a lobotomized ward of Upper Utopia...