Word: pleasingness
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Of all the truisms applicable to Harvard, there is one-not so pleasing as others, perhaps-which can never be ignored: Harvard is probably the most complex university in the world on an administrative level. It is this Harvard, which ranks among the largest non-profit corporations in the United...
The "Eternal Feminine," Greer's term for the stereotype into which society is pushing women, is a passive and pleasing creature. Like the eunuch of the harem, woman must please without being aggressive.
Sir: I think Jack Scott and others may be saying that the time of participatory sports and lifetime sports is at hand, and that the crowd-pleasing spectator sports can be left to the pros and television, or disappear entirely.
Dramatic Lifts. Making use of Marcia, and a handful of other new, young ballerinas, Cranko's productions are always attractive, marked by passionate pas de deux and dramatic, sometimes almost traumatic lifts. His choreography is far less inventive than it seems at first. But he has few peers at...
Of the sculptures, one construction by David Brown, entitled "Voodoo Totem," completes its theme by manipulating the new dimensions of natural textural irregularities. The assemblage's central spine is a splintered railroad tie, onto which are hammered small colored pieces of wood and pottery. Minus the cartoon face painted atop...