Word: pleasantly
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Robert London was a Ford car salesman with his share of the comforts of middle-class life in Southern California, He drove a leased Mazda RX 7, rented a pleasant apartment in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale and had a closetful of sports jackets and ties. A bachelor, London spent almost all of his income, which in better times reached $2,000 a month...
...induced, perhaps, by drugs, lack of oxygen or brain seizures? Could they have been triggered by beta-endorphin, the body's naturally occurring opiate, which, Biologist-Author Lewis Thomas has suggested, may be released at the moment of death to "ensure that dying is a painless and conceivably pleasant experience...
NOSTALGIA can be very pleasant--as a condiment that adds texture, coating, and muting to the surface of events. That The Curse of an Aching Heart, William Alfred's new Broadway play, is so uncritically nostalgic--not even his characters' pain seems to dampen the affection of the playwright summoning up Irish Brooklyn and the 1930s--should not be enough to warrant the unfavorable critical reaction the play has drawn. Sure, the effect on audiences is anything but the slick, lively finish that spells success for so many current musicals; nor does Alfred go in for the angst-packed, Freud...
Sure it's a familiar story. But it's pleasant one nonetheless. The Harvard men's squash team added another to its line of victories yesterday, subduing Williams' Purple Cows, 8-1, in the final tune-up before Saturday's showdown against Princeton...
After Tolstoy, Nabokov serves up a pleasant dessert of Chekhov. Chekhov occupies a distant but secure third place in the official ranking. He is neither poetic nor playful, but his wisdom and good taste capture Nabokov's heart. The survey ends with a small but appetite-killing dose of Gorki. Except for a couple of untranslatable modernists (Blok and Bely), Nabokov says, the future of Russian literature lies with the expatriates...