Word: pleasingness
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On Broadway MAME is spangles and clinking glasses from Prohibition cocktail parties. Mame was Patrick Dennis' Aunt. Mame was a funny book, a funny movie and a funny play. Mame is now a pleasing musical. Angela Lansbury is a pleasing Mame.
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! How it looked from Ireland is the perspective offered through the lens of Playwright Brian Friel. Patrick Bedford and Donald Donnelly make pleasing impressions as double exposures of a young man about to take a one-way jet to America.
Everywhere he looked, the prospect was far from pleasing. "The unresolved problems of humanity," wrote New York Times Political Columnist Arthur Krock, "are as grave as any that burdened man before." In the U.S. in particular, things were in parlous shape. The Government, Krock complained, was endorsing "an evangelistic concept...
Though his hypothesis strikes him as "esthetically pleasing" and has not yet been seriously challenged, Stannard is quick to admit that there is no proven evidence to support it. Asked by a U.S. student for a simple explanation of his theory, Stannard sent a copy of his Nature article and...
When New York City last week declared Trinity Church a municipal landmark, it honored something more than an esthetically pleasing place of worship. A grimy, spire-topped Gothic church overshadowed by Wall Street skyscrapers, it is an island of pastoral calm amidst the marketplace. Its outdoor benches are often crowded...