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...Facts of Life" makes no attempts at seriousness and thereby avoids all the vices. A young Englishman's adventures in Monte Carlo against his father's advice makes for one of the lightest and pleasantest brief moments to flicker across the screen in some time; but it is better seen that talked about...
...flat, and his cuffs are soiled by numerous dissonances . . . Four plain-clothes detectives come in on a sharp glissando, and, seizing the Hero, throw over his head a dark-tasting chord . . ." Performance: good. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Some of the pleasantest music Richard Strauss ever wrote, pleasingly played. Recordings: good...
...Pleasant Science. Long before this stage, Hubble and his colleagues had been driving up & down Palomar Mountain to admire their still blind telescope and its lovely setting. Of all the sciences, astronomy is in many respects the pleasantest. There are no dead animals (as in biology) or horrible smells (as in chemistry). Astronomers work on clear-aired mountaintops with clean and beautiful instruments. Their experimental material-light-filters down unbidden out of the cold, dark...
...pleasantest thing . . . has been the contact with the representatives of TIME who conducted the interviews and took the photographs. ... I was astonished at their youth, and delighted by their intelligence, their understanding, and their perspicuity...
Once about the pleasantest place across the River, the Somerset's beautiful Balinese Room has started along the primrose path of two reviews a night to the music of Sammy Eisen, and no rest for the customer. The best-looking dancing spot in Boston, the Room trades fine food and service for healthy prices plus a $1.00 cover and $2.00 minimum after 9:30. Unfortunately, the new Somerset policy ends a short but promising tradition of good eating, drinking, and dancing, without interruption by padded divas or perspiring dance teams...