Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about Wagner Sr.'s Lutheran grandfather and his inked-in yarmulke is a nice piece of political "skullcapduggery...
...longer the young men but the Communist Party on trial. This was made even clearer when the prosecution described the young men as "criminal elements who had dirtied the workers' demonstration." "It is not the accused who have fine cars to go on mountain holidays and nice apartments," retorted a defense lawyer. "The accused are certainly closer to the working class than those [i.e., the Communist elite] who hide behind their golden curtains...
...Nice that Ike doesn't have to "act" anything. What he appears to be he is. Let acting flourish in the theatrical world where it belongs. Not, Heaven forfend, in the White House...
...also nice to know that our ill-gotten money will be used nobly to enlarge a few delegates' capacity for sin, sex, and sadism at the National Convention. I have worked on Student Councils for the past three years and attended national as well as regional conventions. Nothing constructive ever comes of them. Nothing ever will. It is inherent in their ephemeral nature. Nothing the Council will do, assuming it will do anything beside buying its members season tickets to Durgin Park, could waste money in a more fruitless manner...
...words "love, loyalty, honesty" rarely appear because the experts regard them as too abstract. "Sin is out . . . but (and quite logically) so is virtue. The children depicted in modern readers live in an uncharted ethical miasma of being 'happy,' engaging in do-it-yourself pursuits . . . with nice fathers and mothers in the background, who display no virtues beyond being kind and indulgent to their little ones...