Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regretfully reporting the disappearance of such "teacher-scholars," Riesman viewed with some unhappiness the entangling growth of specialization on both the student and faculty levels. "One could make a nice study of the lengthening amount of time spent at conventions as the [academic] guilds grow larger and more affluent and need to have more time for papers," he noted...
Peggy: Well, Mr. Governor. Nice...
There was nothing particularly unusual about it, unfortunately: a couple of nice kids, driving home from a couple of good parties, went off the road. She was killed, he was not. Everybody felt terrible. Then last week-three months after the accident-some thing happened that made the sad, unnecessary death of Nancy Hitchings, 17, of Half Mile Road, Darien, Conn., a matter of national controversy. Circuit Court Judge Rodney S. Eielson, presiding over the trial of 18-year-old Michael Smith for reckless driving and negligent homicide, ordered the arrest of 14 adults for serving alcohol...
...that Saul Bellow is just too nice a guy. He obviously wishes the world well; he wants the world to be pleased with him; and this benevolence, or "potato love," as Bellow calls it, may have damaged the work of a writer who has long been on the threshold of the U.S. literary pantheon but has never quite managed the "big" novel that would put him there permanently...
...What you are fighting at Harvard," said another Negro student, "is liberal paternalism. You get admitted to the college because you are a Negro. You get a scholarship because you are a Negro. Everyone wants to be nice to you. Run for class marshal--no one can afford to vote against...