Word: pleasants
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...light blue-and-green sofa and the shining desk and the blue-and-green tinted lamps. This was like the house of one of his daughters-in-law: it made him nervous but of course he complimented her on her good taste. In a light-green armchair sat a pleasant, youngish man holding a small book. Vag looked at him curiously. He felt obliged to state his business, but he had none...
Despite the injury of one of their best men and the retirement of another. Harvard's slopemen have made Bill McCollom's debut as the Crimson's first full-time skiing coach both pleasant and exciting...
What explains the popularity of the only-yesterday school of history? Is it the reassuringly manageable look? Chaos neatly packaged with all the shapeliness of the Farmer's Almanac. Is it the pleasant mood of nostalgia? One's youth staged under soft lights to the music of Guy Lombardo. Is it the chewy, toothsome presence of facts? Dates, names and practically nothing else...
...WOULD be more pleasant if everyone at Harvard accepted the same basic system of social and political values. Then the whole community could discipline the few who transgress against the general will...
...done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers one of the year's most pleasant movie experiences...