Word: pleasingness
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All of the above righteousness would be very pleasing to the College's founder of 1875, a Mr. Henry Fowle Durante. Durant, a Harvard man who was born in Hanover, New Hampshire (and who changed his name from Smith because there were far too many Boston lawyers named Smith) had...
Good music, well-rehearsed musicians, and Mr. William Perry combined to make the Adams House Musical Society's closing concert a triumphant one. Presenting English and French works of the Eighteenth Century, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and instrumentalists from the greater Boston area accomplished the difficult feat...
Thomas Arne's perenuial "Rule Britannia" brought the evening to an exciting, crowd-pleasing conclusion.
But besides pleasing lovers of antiquity, the Classical Players' latest, production contains situations so genuinely humorous that they have universal appeal. The story is about a young man who spends his father's money on a courtesan while the old fellow is out of town.
But as a motion picture "The Marriage of Figaro" is not successful. Since the actors who play Count Almaviva and his retinue are not singing the roles, we should have the right to expect good acting and pleasing countenances. Instead, they posture and grimace with little sense of what is...