Word: pleasingness
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One year ago this week, the Western Allies accepted the draft for a German constitution proffered by the Bonn Convention. Since its establishment, the government has been a success in some respects as far as the Allies are concerned. It has remained free of Communist influence. It has also resisted...
In the Hollywood system of production, movies try to please so many cooks that they often wind up not even pleasing the customers. In recent years, a few hyphenated moviemakers (i.e., writer-producers or writer-directors) have been pleasing the public with pictures that bear the stamp of one talented...
The nation's most popular native painter is still Frederick Judd Waugh (rhymes with pshaw). His turbulent surfscapes won the Carnegie International's popularity prize five years in a row (1934-38), and since his death in 1940 they have gone right on pleasing the public. For the...
The camera looks at all this with a pleasing reticence instead of peering open-mouthed at people and events as movie cameras are often prone to do. It is aided by Dmitri Tionkin's dissonant musical background which somehow manages to underline rather than intrude.
"The moral of all this," concludes Monica, "seems to be that the actual career which one selects is in itself of only secondary importance. The thing that apparently matters to God is one's motive for embracing it. A ballet dancer may be-and I cannot help believing often...