Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grown children, it is a bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would put such a stimulating glow into their sunset years. It is the virtue of Sybille Pearson's book that the principals never become archetypes, thanks to her gift for tart dialogue and pleasant personification. It is the defect of her writing that things proceed a little too smoothly. Some second-act confusions and reversals might well have been in order...
...premium wines that cost less than $5 a bottle. Today there is a profusion of good vintages in this price range. (All wine prices vary from city to city, week to week.) Some Beaujolais bottlings have been reduced by $2, to $4.99. A 1982 Domaine de Cheval Blanc, a pleasant white Bordeaux, costs under $4. La Vieille Ferme '81, a satisfying red or white from the Rhone Valley, is now $3.49. Burka's store in Washington offers a 1981 Verdillac Bordeaux Superior for $3.49 a bottle, and a free wine rack goes with each case...
...escort service is pretty good," said Lois C Johnson '86 of North House, who rides it about five times a month. "They come quickly and the drivers are definitely pleasant...
Shipping 80 students each year to the Quad, as one of the proposals would do, is not a proper solution. The College has done an admirable job of trying to make the Quard a more pleasant place to live for those who, against their wishes, get assigned there--in other words, to make distance the Quad's only inconvenience. There's an athletic facility comparable to the IAB, a library better than Lamont, and a handful of departments headquartered there. But unless they move the majority of the classroom, computer, lab, extracurricular and research facilities, Harvard Square, and Harvard Yard...
...this is not an easy or a pleasant read. What we normally think of as "important events" are only touched on, and no event boasts an emotional spin that makes it stand out from the rest. In "The Dictionary in the Laundry Chute," the troubles of a marriage are explained in one interjection, almost as an afterthought. "Angela was wearing a starched bloused with a new straight skirt--at least, new to Ed--and a string of cultured pearls...