Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MONK'S TIME (Thelonious Monk Quartet; Columbia). Monk stubbornly hammered out his style when nobody much cared, still has plenty to say now that he is in a continuous spotlight. Using his own dies to cut the rhythms and shape the harmonies, he remakes each song (Nice Work if You Can Get It, Memories of You). Lulu's Back in Town is one of his better top-to-toe transformations...
...with full pay. It was wonderful. The people didn't worry because they had all those benefits. The government didn't worry about how much it was all costing because the people were not worrying. And statesmen in other lands didn't worry much about that nice, prosperous, Swiss-style country because there were other things to worry about...
Cartooning, says Robert Osborn, "is a nice, pleasant, enjoyable profession." Presumably this is because, before the bile can accumulate, Osborn has worked it off in a few devastating slashes of pen on paper. He got the stored-up frustrations and anger of World War II off his chest with a 1946 book War Is No Damn Good!; his 1960 book The Vulgarians took a snickersnee to the mediocrity of mass society...
...Hickory testify to Du Pont's unwillingness to share its hard-won secrets with a dozen competitors that are trying to crack the synthetic-leather market. Not even the shoemakers have been allowed inside the production area, and a sign at Old Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure his own way." One reason for Du Pont's anxiety: computers that it rented from the Pentagon to calculate potential markets and profits fed back the prediction that world demand for shoes will exceed the supply of hides by as much...
...that the Bratwurst's tasted funny; that the Roast Beef Special's been maybe a little heavy on the Russian. That compulsion to stuff our faces has been on the wane with Elsie's heart. She's back behind the counter now. We think we'll order a nice fat Fresser's Dream...