Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plants that are ripe for robotization. (One reason why Japan has been able to shift so extensively to robots is that Japanese corporations have a tradition of caring for their employees for life.) But as the robots take over more and more jobs-and they can do the more pleasant and interesting tasks as well as the dull and dirty ones-the unions' acquiescence may change. The U.S. unemployment rate is already 7.6%, after all, and retraining programs have so far had little effect...
...talented and underutilized tight end Chuck Marshall and an experienced offensive line led by guard Orazio Lattanzi and tackle Mike Durgin, and Harvard put together an impressive offensive front. Kicker Dave Cody ("He was the most pleasant thing that happened to us this year," Restic says) contributed 45 points. Not surprisingly, when injuries forced the team down to its fourth-string quarterback, it lost. The only other defeat was to Yale, clearly a better team, at least on November...
...dead weight of the 1980 presidential campaign has fallen away, and Americans, no matter how they voted, seem to be walking with that little bounce in the spirit that comes when an ordeal is over, a decision finally made. The evening hour, for example, seems unaccountably more pleasant; the reason may be that political advertising has abruptly vanished from television-a sweet, almost subliminal improvement in the moral atmosphere. No more candidates hagiographically displayed, saints mixing radiantly with the adoring throng; no more of those sarcastic prosecutorial voice-overs about the other guy, the pitchman's tone...
...would be pleasant to think that those agitating to get the 1984 race going are merely tapering off 1980, releasing pockets of undischarged gas. But things do not work that way. The nation's political metabolism has changed. At one time, the presidential campaign was a comparatively brief quadrennial eruption. An impressively haughty 19th century protocol dictated that the office must seek the man. William McKinley, for example, a candidate of piercing eye and vacuous mind, rocked away the 1896 campaign on his front porch in Canton, Ohio, while Mark Hanna freighted in the citizenry to gaze upon...
Modern letters are hasty and utilitarian, usually meant for one pair of eyes only. But by that token the best of them, like Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels...