Word: pleasingness
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The Cambridge Society for Early Music presented an exceptionally pleasing and instructive concert last night. Composed entirely of music from the French Renaissance, the program combined a variety of instrumental and vocal works to illustrate a single aspect of a limited but brilliant period in musical history.
Father: That's what I say . . . When she's sitting down, she's for the people and by the people. She's pleasing the people and pleasing herself.
Thus, of the two systems mentioned above, the first could be much improved in listening pleasure by conversion to stereo. But even in its monaural state it is probably much more pleasing to its owner than any good stereo lower fidelity could ever be.
Augie Zemo's play is also excellent. Marred in places (see Scene III) by the intrusion of prosaic words, it maintains for the most part a pleasing tone of poetic enthusiasm. The writing shows careful attention to style and rhythm.
Novelist Honor Tracy understands Chaplin's kind of reality, as she has amply demonstrated in two previous acid-witty novels. The Straight and Narrow Path and The Prospects Are Pleasing. The grand lady in both of them was Ireland-surprisingly so because the author is herself part Irish. In...