Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries know that they can criticize the U.S. without any fear of any reprisals, or that we will change the principles which actuate us. We are not trying to run a popularity contest, and we don't give or withhold assistance on the basis of whether people say nice things about...
...those who want to stay on the French Riviera, the University of Aix Marseille offers courses in French language, literature and civilization at the coastal towns of Cannes and Nice. English and American literature will also be taught. The summer session begins in the middle of July and lasts till September...
Gene mosttimes elegant in a goatee, is a nice fellow who's done some work in Social Relations and thinks that he'd like to visit Montreal. As he says, "I'd sure like to make that scene." Here in Cambridge he studies in the daytime, "but this place really isn't conducive to study," Gene maintains. "It sort of makes you want to sit back and dig the music...
...request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York matron complained that her daughter had disappeared in Europe, the company finally tracked the girl down in Paris, where she had set up light housekeeping with a Frenchman. One Christmas in London...
...sharply observed background is a backdrop against which quite ordinary people play out parts they never asked for. Things happen, they get involved, and voila! A cool customer. Author Aymé himself never gets involved. He looks on with malice, with wit, and with a nice sense of just how much his characters can do about things and to what extent they are helpless victims. All this and a style that is as supple as it is lucid makes him one of the best satirists now writing...