Word: pleasingness
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On reading your article "McKelvie v. Lowden" I wondered whether there was any significance behind that title. . . . . A few months ago one of the leading bank presidents of the country, at a conference of influential men of the Great Central West, I am informed, introduced ex-governor McKelvie [of Nebraska...
Under Carson, The Tonight Show became Habit Television, which is how the sponsors like it, and most viewers too. Not everyone wanted the Paar caffeine jolt after midnight; what's needed is a pleasing comedy sedative. The ratings underlined the acuity of Carson's choice. After 15 years his audience...
After 27 years in the public eye, Bernard-Henri Lévy is France's iconic postmodern intellectual. A writer, director, philosopher and humanitarian activist, he has been called everything but shy. Since he burst into public view in 1977 as a founding member of the "new philosopher" movement - which...
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories skews a little trashier but in the best possible way. It has the promiscuous atmosphere of one of those speakeasies where socialites slum with gangsters in an effort to mutually increase everybody's street cred. Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates mingle with the...
Jeffery W. Howard ’08 equally hilarious in the always crowd-pleasing role of Major General Stanley—he introduces himself with the ridiculously fast, tongue-twisting song, “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.” Howard had the...