Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their next exercise, John told them to close their eyes, crawl around the room, and touch. That was nice. While they all crawled around, hugging strangers, feeling arms and legs and hands and stomachs and feet, John lit some incense. There was only silence--the silence, and the drowsy, lovely smell of the incense, the bright morning sun, and a group of bodies which lost their ugliness when the boy shut his eyes. No words, no voices, no faces, only the bodies; and the boy liked that. He happily hugged everyone, everyone hugged him, and played with his hair...
...child learning his nursery rhymes, Old Mother Hubbard would go like this: "The old dame piked for the chigrel nook/ For gorms for her ball belljeemer;/ The gorms had shied, the nook was strung,/ And the ball belljeemer had neemer."* Then there were the code names for nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although...
...Willard Polhemus, the bailiff who will be in charge of the Sirhan jurors when they leave the courtroom. Polhemus is planning weekend sightseeing trips for his charges. "Nothing like Marineland," he hurriedly notes, but there will be relaxing tours of the California coast that "wind up in a nice restaurant where they can dine...
...Cliffie senior said, "It's nice. But no one paid attention to them anyway--no one cares about anything anymore...
...there are the purely human moments which--white or black--would be a delight in any show. The most absorbing is a taped television interview with Mother Brown, born November 17, 1853, a Virginia slave, and now a Harlem resident. Her remarks on slavery, for example ("Sometimes people were nice t'ya, sometimes they weren't. Just like they are nowadays."), are representative, but only of a quite ordinary human being who, like us, is doing her best to comprehend the events through which we are all living. On the other end of the scale, there is a wonderful...