Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory has only served to accentuate problems that the defeated Conservatives had struggled with for months. The pound has been put in peril, confidence in Britain's ability to adjust to the demands of the day has shrunk, and over the island that Blake called a "green and pleasant land" has grown an economic cloud that confuses, frightens and frequently infuriates its stalwart inhabitants...
Alfie! by Bill Naughton. A bird is a girl in cockney argot, and Alfie is strictly out for the birds. In this unpretentious and consistently pleasant comedy, Alfie counts the workaday world well lost for lust. He is the modern, international antihero, the man who wants to be kind to everyone and responsible...
...Majestic Quietude." After an experiment Cohen himself conducted, a doctor wrote: "I had read that a number of people have a painful catatonic withdrawal. I fancied that I would be a catatonic . . . The first change was one of pleasant relaxation. This increased to an indescribable mood of great calm and peace. The problems and strivings, the worries and frustrations of everyday life vanished; in their place was a majestic, sunlit, heavenly inner quietude ... I seemed to have finally arrived at the contemplation of the eternal truth." The doctor suffered numbness and shivering so severe that he needed three blankets...
...Genevieve pregnant. When she doesn't hear from him, she lets her mother marry her off to a sober young jewel merchant. One Christmas time years later, the lovers meet again briefly and find themselves virtual strangers. Genevieve is now a chic, prosperous Parisienne. Guy has acquired a pleasant wife, a son, and an Esso station he can call...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. One of the most remarkably versatile talents of the contemporary stage, Zero Mostel breathes nostalgic life into this pleasant, poignant musical comedy derived from Sholom Aleichem's tales of Tevye and his five daughters...