Word: pleasingness
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Typically, the mayor tried to please everybody-and ended up pleasing hardly anyone. Sweating profusely at a floodlit conference (where the mayor's frantic brow-mopping provided photographers with readymade man-in-agony pictures), Wagner announced his choices. He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46...
Listening to a capable reading of Under Milk Wood is one of those pleasing indulgences that seem luxuries when, like the Eliot House Drama seminar's production, they are suddenly offered to us out of the air. Sitting on tall stools, 11 readers manage to fill more than 70 parts...
The King James Version is, undeniably, one of the glories of the English language. Its prose, as Herbert Read has noted, exemplifies "all the characteristics of a true narrative style--correctness, economy and speed." Its rhythms are supple, pleasing and forceful--ranging from the near hexameters of Isaiah's cry...
This year it was different. Rocky stuck to his guns in Albany, worked out a modus vivendi, if not a marriage, with Mahoney-and the G.O.P. majority quick-stepped behind his program. Happily fingering the more than 1,200 bills that the legislature had passed before adjourning, Rockefeller could see...
After its meeting the Class Committee said that a Latin diploma is not hypocritical and disputed Pusey's opinion that the new format was aesthetically pleasing.