Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very informal (and, I thought, private) get-together at Winthrop House about ten days ago has only just reached me. I was rather surprised to find your reporter there, taking notes at what I assumed to be an off-the-record conversation. However, since he seemed very bright and pleasant. I merely asked to be permitted to check any "quotes" he may have taken down. Alas, he forgot to check...
Chris Pardee took the high jump as expected, but a pleasant surprise was Jack Spitzberg's 6 ft., 4 1/2 in. leap, as high as Pardee's winning jump but good only for second place because of Pardee's fewer misses. Spitzberg had taken a terrific spill on the asphalt track on route to qualifying for a hurdles hest, but scraped himself off the ground in time to make his second jump...
Homecoming is not always a pleasant experience. For the young man just separating himself from his adolescence, the return to the family can be a night-marish ordeal, a return which forces memories of a painful past too fresh to be casually accepted. And it is also a time when the familiar faces of childhood must be re-examined and forced, sometimes suddenly, into new perspective...
...demonstrations and with our guide walked out of the control room, down some steps into the five-foot pipe leading to the Tunnel. The inside turned out to look just as one would expect the inside of a concrete pipe to look; it was cheerfully lit and almost pleasant, however, except that the low "ceiling" made it necessary to walk with a slight stoop. We recognized the usual Tunnel fixtures: steam pipes, electric conduit, telephone cables. The pipe made a number of turns so that we could not be sure of our route, but it seemed that we passed under...
...concert also featured the first East Coast performance of a cantata written last year by Randall Thompson, for mixed voiced, brass choir and harp. The second of the piece's three parts was pleasant; a lovely, smooth harp passage was answered softly by a muted trumpet and by the voices. "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon," the voices sang...