Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REAGANOMICS, the trouble in Poland, cutbacks in student aid, these coming due, a virus in Quincy House, Harvard's investment policies, John Belushi's death--the major topics of discussion around Harvard of late have been mostly depressing With this pervading atmosphere of bad news, how pleasant it is to note that one bright light has flooded the Harvard community, providing a release from the pressures of college life, and for four weeks now only good news...
Indeed it has. Historically, Italian bureaucrats have given special meaning to the old expression dolce far niente (it is pleasant to do nothing). Absenteeism was rampant, feigned illness a way of life. In many cases, civil servants who did show up for work arrived late and left early...
Rendering such a loudmouth tolerable would tax many a novelist. Author Paul Theroux, 40, manages to make Allie pleasant, if exhausting company. Seeing him through a child's eyes helps. Charlie does not look on his father as an itinerant handyman. "He's a genius," he assures strangers. And indeed, Allie does more than talk. On a whim, he bundles his wife, Charlie, a younger son and twin daughters off the Massachusetts farm he has been working and takes them to Honduras. He explains: "I once ate a banana from Honduras. That tasted mighty good, so I figured...
...hard to imagine an exile from popular culture succeeding in drama, but following the lead of Bowie and Ronstadt, Osmond more than holds his own. He has a generally pleasant voice, and his dancing is quite good. The Johnny Jones role calls for a star quality performer to carry the show along. His acting ability might be negligible, yet few can question the value of Osmond's 19 years in the business. Charisma enables him to support the burden of the show, becoming a center of gravity around which the other actors can spin merrily. Maybe only Donny with...
...their personal finance or small businesses control inventories, and he urged that they form a company to market the computer. The two raised $1,300 to open a makeshift production line by selling Jobs' Volkswagen Micro Bus and Wozniak's Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs, recalling a pleasant summer that he spent working in the orchards of Oregon, christened the new computer Apple...