Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best"), once turned down an invitation to dinner at a famous restaurant with the comment: "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded." On a trip to Italy in 1961, Yogi took in Tosca at La Scala. "It was pretty good," he said. "Even the music was nice." And who can ever forget Lawrence Berra Night in his home town of St. Louis? Yogi stepped up to the microphone and announced: "I want to thank all the baseball fans and everyone else who made this night necessary...
...every man's mortality be reduced to a broad hint that something is going to happen to Dad. Director Alex Segal has rendered a poignant minor classic in prosaic style, as if he were a nosy neighbor letting everybody in on the awful thing that happened to those nice folks down the street...
Captain Ed Meehan set a course record yesterday as the Harvard cross-country team topped off a nice holiday in New Hampshire with an easy 19-44 win over the Dartmouth Indians...
...traveler from Brooklyn did not lose her head entirely over such exotic enchantments. The Rhine, "for all its pretty white houses and for all its musty castles, can't touch the Hudson!" She met six sheiks but was unimpressed. "I prefer a nice Yale man." Sightseeing in Alexandria was on the dull side: "If anybody at a party ever asks me if I've seen a catacomb I can say yes, but that's about all I got out of the experience...
...grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning for the twentieth century American." He will also have "freed himself from the concept of utility." All of this sounds very nice, on first reading, but on the second go-round it comes out as the syllabus for a sort of parody of a Gen Ed course...