Word: pleasants
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Five hundred years ago, the Buddha taught his followers that unhappiness derives from the incessant habits of judging every experience as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral and of trying to hold on to the pleasant ones while shunning the unpleasant...
...quite warm in the cinema and you get to watch something that’s hopefully a little unusual. It’s a fantasy. It’s got flying fish in it, it’s got sphinxes in it, and hopefully it’s a pleasant diversion from studies. I can’t oversell this thing, I guess...
...asked. Startled, they shook their heads no. He continued. Though he had been trained in King’s nonviolence methods, Vietnam radicalized Perkins. Just as he was about to join Black Power, Perkins said, he had a change of heart and got married instead. The marriage lasted 30 pleasant years; when it ended, he said, he turned to alcoholism. Now he lived among Birmingham’s vast homeless population, at that moment some of the only people outdoors...
...Upon returning this year, Quad students were greeted with a summer shuttle schedule, devoid of busses between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. For the entire move-in week, Quadlings were forced to trek to the Yard during the day. And while the walk is pleasant with a backpack and good weather, it is dreadful when transporting a TV in the rain...
...most pleasant development for the Crimson, however, has been the play of the freshmen...