Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mistaken Identity. A member of the noncerebral, one-of-the-boys school of politics, O'Connor, 56, is a smiling, pleasant fellow with wiry good looks and a wholesome family life (one wife, three sons). Born in New York City of immigrant parents, he worked his way through college (Niagara University) and law school as a lifeguard and merchant seaman. As a lawyer, he got some national attention for his conscientious - and ultimately successful - defense of Christopher Balestrero, a musician who was the victim of a mistaken-identity arrest...
Foreign tourists report plenty of pleasant surprises. U.S. taxis are generally less expensive than in other parts of the world, and the driver who shuts off the meter and says "Let me show you my city" is practically an American archetype. Museums are by and large free. Foreigners frequently note a "basic honesty" in money dealings, rarely complain of being shortchanged or cheated. Visitors marvel at American highways, cloverleafs and bridges, admire U.S. drivers for "staying in lane," and deplore ubiquitous billboards. They are horrified at the amount of food piled on their plates and at the haste with which...
...personal tragedy unfolds in the foreground, the national disaster is glimpsed in the background: bobbies accompanied by German tommy gunners, state offices staffed by arrogant blackshirts, press oppressed, radio reduced to martial music and rigged news, ghettos behind barbed wire, extermination depots scattered through England's green and pleasant land. In the end, the heroine connects with the resistance-and finds it just as brutal as the regime it is resisting...
...evenings when he is not performing, he sits listening in an armchair in the vestry, caressing his cello, his blue eyes gazing into space, his bald head nodding, his left hand dancing on the fingerboard in silent accompaniment to the music that he says sinks into him with "the pleasant heaviness of gold...
Luci has also been around a bit. She campaigned with her parents in 26 states in 1964 and, despite the lisp she cannot always control, learned to deliver pleasant, spontaneous little talks. During the last academic year she buckled down earnestly to her nursing studies. Pat calls her "much more mature than other girls her age." To Luci, her sober, self-possessed fiancé is "a gentle man, a kind man, a fun man." And, she vows, "he will always have the upper hand...