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...cited the chance to work as a member ofwhat she called "an extraordinary department" fullof "eminent, jolly and pleasant" people as a majorfactor involved in her decision to make the moveto Boston...
After the Senate's vote, you heard calls from the usual quarters to put bitter partisanship behind and enter an era of civility, which is a pleasant thought, but unlikely. Why should we imagine that the Easter bunny will come this year, after we've been disappointed so often in the past...
...building, are the Nike European Headquarters, an environmental-studies center at Oberlin College that will produce more energy than it consumes, the Monsanto Child Development Center in Missouri, and a new community in Indiana called Coffee Creek Center, which will work against suburban sprawl by establishing a compact and pleasant small town...
When Golden State stopped being a pleasant basketball experience--Sprewell twice grappled physically with teammates and was bitter about the changing composition of the team--his environment turned from tranquil to warped...
...about Lionel Trilling, whom he considers the most intelligent person he ever met, is that he lacked a certain political courage, taking refuge always in his favorite word, complicated. Everything was complicated, Trilling would insist, his emphasis lingering on the first syllable. Of Hellman, Podhoretz finds surprisingly pleasant things to say--she was a wonderful cook, she was great company, "playful, mischievous, bitchy, earthy, and always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented as saint and martyr in the memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time...