Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love affairs, experimented with narcotics, pamphleteered against puritanism, fought with his publishers, lived off advances-and agonizingly, determinedly labored to produce Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, and his autobiographical The "Genius." By 1916, Dreiser was the hero of the avant-garde and the pet peeve of the Nice Nellies, who denounced The "Genius" as literary sewage and got it banned by the censor. Crushed, Dreiser fell silent for ten years...
...Heps will be held in New Haven too, so it will be nice to get some practice on the Eli Field. And Yale, though no power as a team, will provide strong opposition in just those events where the Crimson's capabilities are currently unknown...
...statement attributed to Justice Frankfurter that "the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people" is incomplete. It should continue: "and dedicated lawyers whose love of justice surmounts any personal sacrifice that may be required to attain...
...first, the boy Peter (Peter Kastner) rebels through habitual truancy. After romping in a cemetery with his girl Julie (Julie Biggs), he climbs onto a bridge rail to explain that he doesn't know what he wants, but does know what he doesn't want: a nice home, broadloom rugs, "living the way my parents do." The audience groans. All this has been said, hasn't it? Blackout of communication between parents and youth. Rejection of adult values...
Nicole Lair, a Parisienne who will be the hostess, said yesterday in her heavily accented English that "a coffee shop is very nice, but what can you do after you finish drinking coffee? I want to make a place that anybody would enjoy coming to--as long as they don't look like beatniks...