Word: pleasingness
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We may wish the writer had approached his life differently, had dwelt more on one aspect and less on another, but we have to grant him his right to see his life as he chooses. Greene uses this right in one major way this is extremely typical of him: he...
Fuller Brush Banking. Most of these innovations have come from President Adess himself, a lively 59-year-old businessman unencumbered by a banking background. He honed his instinct for pleasing customers as a Fuller Brush salesman during the Depression. From there, he went into retailing, building up his hardware business...
Inspecting the countryside is, after all, one of the more pleasing rewards of van living. But few wanderers have refined the art as well as a 39-year-old known only as Rex, who spent the past 15 years roving the U.S. aboard a motorcycle. He has now decided to...
Pleasing Prospect. It has not been lost on Defense Minister Lin Piao and the other moderates who run China these days that the Chinese economy moves ahead only when Maoism, with its disruptive emphasis on "struggle" and its relative indifference to rates of production, is throttled. Last year China harvested...
Unlike the hunger strike, where the students' demand for any senior who wanted to be allowed to live off-off was not granted until months later, the black students were able to get their demand within a fairly short time. They dealt politically and angrily, and got a response with...