Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Football (4-2, 2-2 Ivy): Despite a slew of injuries and a recent dearth of touchdowns, this team has performed up to expectations. Beating Army certainly proved a pleasant surprise, and the squad's defense appears as strong as it's been in coach Joe Restic's tenure. If the gridders can top Brown this weekend, and Yale falters, the Crimson has a shot at a share of Ivy glory...
...water polo (5-5): The most pleasant surprise, primarily because no one knew what to expect. But this infant varsity squad last week soaked Yale, 13-7, and stayed close to Eastern power Brown, 12-8. Houston Hall and David Fasi stand out on this well-balanced squad coached by Stephen Pike...
...manner. With access to the big houses, the young painter could see the work of Rubens, Van Dyck and Claude. He rapidly learned to deal with the social mask. Those pink, smooth, patrician egg faces, the men a little knobbly of jaw and hooded of eyelid, with their "cold pleasant stares" (as Henry James would say of the English gentleman) are emblems of sensibility and composure, not of emotion. Now and again a very slight hint of irony seems to intrude, but one may be fairly sure that one's own 20th century ideas, not Gainsborough's 18th...
...Secret Service code names for Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Witty, genial and well liked by his colleagues and reporters, Deaver is keenly sensitive to the likes and dislikes of both Reagans. He knows, almost instinctively, what types of campaign events make Reagan feel at ease. In the coterie of pleasant people around Reagan, Deaver may be the most charming...
Minutes pass. The phrase "folk music" appears in one of my sentences. Forbert launches a gravelly monologue on the theme "What is folk music, really?" Then we find safe, pleasant ground in a mutual admiration for Mississippi novelist William Faulkner. Somehow, that subject takes an uncanny turn toward Forbert soliloquizing about how people need direction and motivation, how--if they haven't found it yet--they should continue to search. For the first time, eloquence of a sort enters the room. Out of the mud, the lotus flower blooms. I extend a handshake, happy to have what few notes...