Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense, however, has been far better than expected. Sophomore line-backer Ben Gifford has been a pleasant surprise who has solidified Penn's 5-4 defense...
Even so, Stokes has retained widespread support among Cleveland's establishment. The Plain Dealer strongly reaffirmed its earlier endorsement of him as "the skilled professional" against Taft "the pleasant amateur." The Democratic Party has given Stokes enthusiastic backing, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Teamsters Union are for him, and he continues to enjoy overwhelming popularity among the city's 120,000 registered Negroes (v. 200,000 whites). "I can lose the election only if I make a big mistake," says Stokes. Some of his supporters are worried that he already...
...Nowadays, even the casual student of the American pathologies, public and private, may find the fiction of mayhem crucially disturbing and very much worth the reading. The worst examples of the genre present the symptoms of our virulent malady in pure form, and a new Mickey Spillaine is not pleasant going, precisely because it has roughly the same significance as a fresh mass murder. The best books of the type offer symptomology, diagnosis, and like most good physicians (and all great works of art), a tentative prescription for treatment. Among living crime novelists, Ross MacDonald is simply the best...
...government which pursues a policy with which many, at the moment, do not agree. It was a denial of the right of other members of this community to disagree with the conclusions of the three hundred and speak to the interviewers. That their imprisonment was a relatively pleasant one and that the inconvenience to Dow and to other students may not be critical is not of much importance. For as the CRIMSON has always (until now) recognized, any abridgement of our liberties is too great to tolerate...
Technically, too, the production was uneven. Randall Darwall's sets were pleasant enough to look at, but they filled the stage, forcing the action, especially in the second act, into an unsuitably small area. The late Lewis H. Smith supplied excellent costumes, though some of the women were wearing fabrics too lavish or bright for their station. The makeup, like the lighting, was unfortunately slap-dash...