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...parents, but if one was an inquisitive and competitive boy with a mania for collecting things, the obvious challenge was to eat all 28 flavors. This was not so easy as it might seem, for not all Howard Johnson's restaurants carried all 28 flavors. Nor was it as pleasant as it might seem either, for there were flavors like ginger that had very little reason to exist except to be one of the magical 28. But there were always the marvelous cones, for Howard Johnson's cones were just about the only ones that stayed crisp and tasty...
Hughes said the money "makes things more pleasant," but added that she enjoyed the recognition from the foundation, and that she thought it symbolized a greater recognition of public service by the government...
Professional organizers are also in demand. Stephanie Culp of Los Angeles is a pleasant, schoolmarmish woman who seven years ago turned her personal inclinations ("I was neurotically organized") into a career. "If I said I was a professional organizer seven years ago, people would have laughed," she says. "Now the idea is accepted." Culp's golden rule is to set priorities, and she's not kidding. "When you die, what do you want people to say at your funeral?" she asked California businesswoman Baker-Velasquez. Answer: "I didn't want my children to say, 'My mother was a wonderful businesswoman...
...this comes since '69," Pusey says, convinced that he was there when the tides changed. "Since you were born, really--you never knew what a pleasant world it was before then. After [World War II], and before all this trouble came, was the period when all of the forces were creative, and helping higher education. That's when the American universities, about 20 of them, became the great institutions in the world. It was a real joy to have been identified with...
...decade marked by the rise of yuppies and "New Age" music, it seems many composers have fallen into the trap of producing uplifting soundtracks that are pleasant to listen to but which are endlessly repetitive in their efforts to be relaxing...