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...year-old former engineer is a pleasant, slightly self-deprecating man with some resemblance to a healthier-looking Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs and Marion B. Gammill, S | Title: Acting President Carnesale Known for Administrative Skill | 11/29/1994 | See Source »

Dunster residents find the atmosphere at the Dunster Cafe pleasant and enjoyable...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Two Students Revive Dunster Cafe | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

...said she is not sure whether she wants to leave a "very pleasant and comfortable environment" which she has "built over a period of years...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: History Offers Ulrich Tenure | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Farndon's oils evoke the same, mildly pleasant feelings, soothing and persuading viewers to luxuriate in his images of the ideal moment. Rarely does his subject venture beyond a ship yard or a wharf, a sun-drenched path or a perfectly motionless pond. Thick paint and broad strokes complete his portrayal of utter screnity through the heaviness and fixity of the surface texture of his canvases. Figures are rendered almost motionless, defined only by a few cursory passes of his brush, while those figures standing on a path or in a park as if on a stroll end up pasted...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Yankee Impressed | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...people before him were secure in their faith and in their right to shape and lead a new nation. Then a lot of things happened -- all meticulously noted in this narrative -- beginning with pioneer hardships, moving through wars and economic booms and busts, and winding up in the pleasant suburban comforts of Frazier's own Ohio childhood. "I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed," Frazier writes, and as a result the next cohort, his, "sort of pitched and yawed all over the place, spiritually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: In the Frazier Museum | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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