Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Nixon had worked such magic among Republicans that the Democrats were taking back all the nice words they had said about the "new Nixon." "The new Nixon," growled the Fair-Dealing New York Post, "bears a striking resemblance...
...sick, sick, sick" poem by Daniel Langton called "A Modern Poem." They are skillful space fillers. Anne Sexton has five poems printed: all are sentimental--"And that's the Way it Was" inversely so. "The Exorcists" redeems itself in places and "Hutch" looks as if it ought to sound nice...
There's something especially nice about the choice of Winthrop House's new senior tutor--nice because the House derives its name from John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony three centuries ago, and because this fact is so often overlooked. But no more. Benjamin W. Labaree, the new senior tutor, is that rare individual--a teacher of colonial history; and even more unlikely, his father teaches in the same field...
...amusingly of how bourbon may be put to good, if pragmatic, use in "The Use of Bourbon," which is all very well for them that can afford it and apparently he can't because it's clear poem. His other contribution, "Skeeter," seems a bit wordy but has some nice sounding words in it. A. Lowell Edmunds has written a sonnet which seems squeezed from somewhere...
...bottom an old-fashioned novel about the tortuous ways of young love, even if its style flashes like high-IQ gossip and the characters are as plausibly etched as perfect counterfeit money. In 309 East & a Night of Levitation (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), Author VanOrden showed a nice disinterest in anything ordinary. Now she makes up ordinary faces as if they were being prepared for an Italian fancy-dress ball. Her young Americans are rich, educated and self-consciously tortured by love and the need to prove that art and personality are more important than money and family...