Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, in quick succession, Hugh Polk knocked in a pass from captain Bill Kerstetter, and Njoku recorded his second, getting his foot on the ball in a melee right in front of the goal and lining it in. Harvard had a pleasant game of target practice in the last quarter, notching four more. Lutz Hoeppner and Robin Hahuel got one apiece, and Haven Pell, top scorer on the Freshman team last year, scored...
...with Ermine. The dinner was pleasant enough, but it was just a starter. Afterward, everybody got into limousines again, bound for an art show at Manhattan's Asia House, to which Jackie and Galbraith had each lent some of their North Indian paintings. After a 45-minute tour of the exhibit, the group was off to the Sign of the Dove, a Third Avenue restaurant that Jackie and her friends had taken over for the evening and turned into a discothèque decorated with life-sized photographs of Galbraith, who is 6 ft. 8 in. tall. Someone nicknamed...
Night. Rain. Pavement squeegeed dry by tires of car ahead. NEW ENGLAND KEEP LEFT, chk-chk-chk from cars in opposite lanes, their headlights spaced out evenly by expert tailgating. Radio: "Hurricane Betsy is acting up again." Sensation of pleasant tension, smooth-pumping pistons, wiper-rhythm. WARNING SPEED CHECKED BY RADAR. Needle's right on 65. Cops make allowances. "Hey nonny nonny and a Ballantine beer." PAY TOLL AHEAD. Get out EXACT CHANGE. Hands resting lightly on wheel. "You don't believe-we're on the eve-of destruction." LINCOLN...
...town boy in city territory (Orange, N.J.) who has what might be called a consuming interest in agriculture. After one magnificent dinner at the Shuman farm, both White and his subject had to suspend the interview for an afternoon nap. Researcher Pat Gordon, who comes from Houston and remembers pleasant vacations on her grandfather's ranch in western Texas, is now trying her luck with avocado plants in her apartment in Manhattan...
...Lasch skips over the '30's in a few pages, in pleasant contrast to Daniel Aaron's agonizing redundancies in Writers on the Left. C. Wright Mills and Benjamin Ginzburg are praised for defending the autonomy of culture against the depredations of those who called for Commitment. But Mr. Lasch is far more interested in the failings of the '40's and '50's, and perhaps it is here that he is most illuminating. He notes that the post-Marxist "realist" school of political analysis, fathered by Niebuhr on Kennan, Morgenthau, Charles Osgood, Louis Halle, and John F. Kennedy...