Talking of up-and-coming youngsters keep an eye out for America's Jack Sock, the third best 21-and-under tennis player in the world (overall world No75), mainly because his family named after a popular layer of foot-insulation, which I find pleasing.
His work has a clinical, scientific aesthetic to it that I find pleasing to look at.
I have some experience of reading poetry aloud, over the radio, and of listening to other trained voices, and there are some styles of reading I find pleasing, and some I abhor.
What I find pleasing is that people seem to have their favourite poems, often going back to the earliest displays: William Carlos Williams's note of thanks to his hosts, This Is Just to Say ("I have eaten/ the plums/ that were in/ the icebox"); Adrian Mitchell's To Celia ("When I am sad and weary/ When I think all hope has gone/ When I walk along High Holborn/ I think of you with nothing on").
I later discovered that the Purell Soap Company advertised heavily in Catholic circulars, which explains why I returned to the Purell women that I still find pleasing.
If found, please return to Elaine May".
"If found, please return to Charlotte Rampling".
If found, please return to House of Commons, London.
I found myself pleased by Aunt Helen's defiance, as irrational as it might seem; I guess I had always thought of myself as a Brady, too.
When Northam won the Virginia governor's race, in November, and enough Democratic legislative candidates won to turn the suburbs from red to blue, "I found myself pleased," Kristol said.
