Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resembles "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" with a twist. The Black parents resent the white woman, but Sarah's brother Mathew retorts by pointing out that they should have expected an interracial affair. The problem is that these privileged Philadelphia Negroes would like their children to marry other nice colored people, a prospect Sarah and Mathew find excruciatingly dull...
...notes, "is quick, brainy and made it on countless telecasts." John Updike, who lives in the exclusive suburb of Beverly Farms, cites the economic factor. "When I came to Harvard in the '50s, Boston was fairly grubby," says the novelist. "Now if you have the money, it's a nice place to live...
...They were very nice people who always treated me like a gentleman," the former bank teller told a reporter last week. The retiree acknowledged cutting some legal corners when dealing with members of a reputed Mob family who made unusually large cash deposits. Said he: "What are you going to do, give them the third degree?" Boston's First National Bank, his former employer, no doubt wishes the teller had done just that. Two congressional panels are probing the banking company (assets: $21 billion), suspecting that it has been involved, perhaps unwittingly, in money laundering, the booming illegal business...
...geared to profit from the immediate gratification of egos and nerve endings is not a culture at all, but an addiction. As an addict, he discovers that bad habits and ignorance are the bars of self-imprisonment. "Look at my private culture," he cries. "It really isn't very nice in here. And that is why I long to burst out of the world of money and into--into what? Into the world of thought and fascination. How do I get there? Tell me, please. I'll never make it by myself. I just don't know...
...Nobel Prize winning scientists are always nice to have around the University," he added...