Word: pleasingness
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It is an intense work, musically as well as dramatically, and both the composer and the singer make the most of it. Pasatieri's music is pleasing rather than profound, but his lyrical gift is real. There are beautiful swelling orchestral lines in before Breakfast, and a touching, plangent...
Triumphantly boorish in public; morose, malicious and often anguished in private: the Waugh of legend has only grown since his death in 1966, and the result is not a pretty picture. His letters show him in a much more flattering light. When he was not beset by strangers or pursued...
Lowell and the rest missed an unrivaled banquet. The day concluded in Cambridge's Union Hall, with a dinner by invitation only for 650 guests. Red, white and blue pennats hung from every rafter. "Upon the center of the wall was a painted female figure, nine feet high, representing the...
But the greatest gift psychiatrists could bring to government is the capacity to forgive. Until recently, only Barbara Walters had that power, but now with psychiatrists at the helm, all sins become venial. One would expect a psychiatrist Governor to exercise his right of pardoning condemned prisoners, of course, and...
The absence of so many world-class athletes made for a pleasing unpredictability in Moscow. A judo competitor from the tiny Republic of San Marino (pop. 20,000) admitted: "It isn't the same without the Japanese. Even I have a chance here now." At the same time, the...