Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, a lot of them are nice people...
...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...Lindstrom) wanders in memory through a child's garden of sexual reverses. Among the obscene scenes: his mother summoning a crowd of drunken guests into her bedroom and letting them watch while she gives birth to a dead baby; his mother, between sensual caresses, telling him "what a nice litt'e thing" he has and then slapping him angrily when he masturbates in her bed; his mother sneering coldly when he dresses himself in her clothes, daubs himself with her rouge, and pathetically attempts to provoke her appetite...
That's too much to take and the nice Kansas City boys, who get added sympathy support from occupying the same town as the Athletics, have got to be given the nod. unless they explode, as some sadists have morbidly suggested they might...
...nice to learn that Julie is a real person and almost like the rest of us, instead of all spun sugar...