Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another obstacle is the new nations' obsession to get rid of all things associated with colonialism, including democratic customs. One ready substitute is socialism-or the vague authoritarian forms that many backward countries take to be socialism-for it offers a nice, revolutionary, anticolonial posture, and more or less handy blueprints for a centralized economy...
...Izzy Stone, at an age when most men look back ruefully on the years behind, on the social debts unpaid, on the causes not espoused; here he is, working like a crazy man at what he loves to do, thumbing his nose at the government, yet making a nice living, beholden to no one, feeling quite subversive and generally all optimistic smiles--smiles for himself and for man's future on this planet. He loves to call himself the only capitalist entrepreneur left in the news business...
...cliche criticism of the Ivory Tower should be discarded; college should not try to prepare one for the real world but rather inculcate ideals for which the student-citizen-to-be will strive once he leaves the Yard for State Street, Wall Street, or Easy Street. A nice thought, perhaps; it could be worked up into a dandy epigram, but it hardly seems worth the space. An expert on eastern culture, Mrs. Rudolph would much better have devoted her energy to scoring the nation's universities for Western parochialism...
...remember a day when our team was beaten 40 to nothing." Sparky was afraid to talk to girls and did not have his first date until two years after graduating from high school. Once he overheard a friend of his mother's remark: "He's such a nice boy, isn't he?" Thought Sparky: "Oh boy, is that all I'll be all my life...
...name, Sparky was off to a fast start with one of his first strips, which forecast, in a way, all that was to come. In the first two panels, Patty walks down the street reciting the feminist verse: "Little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice." In the third panel, she spots Charlie Brown and slugs him. In the fourth, she continues on her way, finishing the verse: "And that's what little girls are made...