Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan in a rowboat with an outboard motor, wanders half insane with loneliness and terror through the enormous canceled city. "I'm alive!" he screams, "I'm alive!" But by this time he has lost all hope that anybody else is. He takes up residence in a pleasant apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, begins to make the best of his mournful immense inheritance of culture and convenience...
...Nouveau is just beginning its vogue. New York's Musum of Modern Art plans an enormous exhibit of the school this summer and similar shows elsewhere will surely follow. Aside from the pleasant but confusing inclusion of Munch and Lautrec, the Busch-Reisinger's well-chosen exhibit gives one a full picture of the Art Nouveau--its frequent failures as well as its undeniable successes...
...credited to Penn State's Dick Engelbrink. However, Benjamin is well rested, and he will probably be running against Engelbrink without the exhausting effects of a previous mile race. No one really knows what Benjamin can do if he concentrates on the two-mile; the result may be a pleasant surprise for the Crimson...
...just a practical financial measure that is completely impersonal. They can only afford to contribute a certain amount to scientific research and they prefer to give assistance to current professors. Bridgman himself has never lodged an official complaint as he feels "it doesn't put a man in a pleasant position to have to urge the value of his own contributions." But he feels that a more flexible retirement plan would not force a man to leave his work. Bridgman's high pressure experiments and equipment are now in the capable hands of William Paul, Assistant Professor of Solid State...
Count Your Blessings. A pleasant little comedy about a modern Penelope (Deborah Kerr) and her absentee husband, including some lectures about Gallic marriage delivered by the indestructible Maurice Chevalier...