Word: pleasingness
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Most crucially, doing proper justice to the 20-odd numbers nine times a week could only leave her voice in shreds; hence she has to pipe down, to substitute byplay on the actress' part for brio on the singer's. She is always personally pleasing, and sometimes more...
The document had the odd quality of pleasing just about everyone on the Western side. Paris' leftist Combat nicknamed it "La Note Dior," because it was short and had style. Le Monde applauded the absence of "polemics, which give the Soviets the nourishment they need for their propaganda." In...
In the Mexico of the past, graft and corruption in high and low places was accounted part of the very system of government. Drawing salaries too low to support their families, petty bureaucrats, cops and inspectors took their "bite" as a legitimate and necessary part of their living. In the...
¶ If Lausche wants a federal judgeship, as has been rumored, he would appoint someone pleasing to the Eisenhower Administration. Names mentioned: Republican Arthur Flemming, director of the U.S. Office of Defense Mobilization (whose appointment was called "as certain as death" by the Middletown, Ohio Journal last week); Author-Farmer...
THE 20th Century has known just one great religious artist: the 82-year-old French recluse, Georges Rouault. Moody and mystical by nature, Rouault strives to paint not the pleasing but the sublime, and he scorns the world's opinions. Yet inevitably the world is catching up with him...