Word: pleasingness
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"They don't care anything about Latin girls," cried Miss Ecuador before the judging. "The European girls get better food, and they are the ones who are photographed," sobbed Miss Argentina. Sure enough, Miss Sweden, Margareta Arvidsson, 18, was crowned Miss Universe in Miami. No pleasing some people-she...
With that, De Gaulle took off on a 6,200-mile swing through Russia that was less political than it was crowd pleasing. In Novosibirsk-"the Chicago of Siberia"-fully half of the city's 1,000,000 residents turned out to greet the French leader. Accompanied by Podgorny...
The only other incident during the first term that gave the Geistgauge more than a tremor was the sudden agreement of three classmates (on December 2) that '66 was a more esthetically pleasing number than '65 or '67. This was a cause of great rejoicing on their part, as two...
The whole magazine is provocative. And--no small thing--it is exceedingly well edited. The selection of book reviewers is particularly fortuitous. Robert Horowitz, for example, brings his experience as an editor of the Columbia Spectator to the task of assessing Daniel Bell's new book on general education. The...
Yet unlike some crack newspapermen and dedicated pamphleteers he did not, and does not, hold a conspiracy theory of history. For him the function of a newspaper is not so much to expose evil as to educate, to reduce the sum total of confusion and ignorance in the world. So...