Word: nice
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Macy's you too would imagine a WASP Santa after your first few visits. A black Santa, or a Santa with a big nose and a Grand Concourse address just wouldn't have been satisfactory. And what if you were Jewish? Don't you wonder why this nice man missed Chanukah every year and then arrived on Christmas? Portnoy missed the point in his complaint...
...stronger pianist tear into his music. "You know," says Ohlsson, "in the U.S. we treat the mazurkas, for example, as inconsequentially as tea cookies. But the Poles don't want that kind of refinement. Mazurkas are folk music to them. What they want in them is a nice pow!" Ohlsson has the pow, and starting right now, he also has the how of a new and brightly blooming musical career...
...alone is an example of the effectiveness of the student movement. I'm sure they had much bigger plans for a large-scale invasion and a permanent occupation. Instead, they're down to just sending the Saigon air force and carrying out an aerial bombardment, which is not very nice but it's better than it might have been. And I think this kind of pressure can win partial victories...
...many nice guys in our sagt-in fact, we can't even focus all of our disgust on one antagonist which might be somewhat idle; anyway there's a boycott on. We decide we want to improve the conditions for migrant workers and we can join consumers and chain stores in organized activity. It worked once with grapes. In this frame of mind, we can be rather startled when our administrators defend their position on lettuce by admitting that their policy on grapes had been equally impervious to moral argument. We knew that Harvard had stopped buying grapes, but little...
...American Journey, Jean Stein's new book about Robert Kennedy, Washington's grandest grande dame, crisp, canny and perennial Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, contributes her own distinctive views about the difference between Bobby and John F. Kennedy: "I see Jack in older years as the nice little rosy-faced old Irishman with the clay pipe in his mouth, a rather nice broth of a boy. Not Bobby. Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest...