Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Where Is Prejudice?" Twelve nice, reputedly unbiased college students of differing faiths and races are brought together for an exercise in venom during a week-long workshop. The catalyst fusing their experience turns out to be naked prejudice...
...discussed what he called his "most powerful experience," living through World War II in France. He and his mother were alone and part-Jewish. When Hoffmann was II, the Nazis occupied Paris, where they were living, and he and his mother fled to Nice, first unoccupied and later controlled by the easy-going Italians. In 1943, Italy capitulated and the Germans took over. The Hoffmanns dwelt in terror; many of their countrymen--expatriate Austrians--were picked up by the Gestapo...
Abraham's Choice. The novel is a stark tale that shows how the ghosts of the Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...
Michael Kazin, a sophomore in SDS, puts it this way, "What they want is welfarism at home and imperialism abroad. That's very nice but it just won't work. They're willing to keep all the defense money intact just so they can get George Meany on their side...
...raped her. If so, she certainly kept on protesting-and protesting. She had her last lover, it has been said, at 60. A compulsive gambler, she had lost her entire fortune by 1926 at the casino at Monte Carlo. She died only two years ago, at 96, in Nice, poor, solitary, devoutly religious, and apparently at peace...