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...they go, they find others like themselves, eager to share possessions and experiences. Marinas, yachtels and boatels welcome them with everything from ice to beer to sparkplugs to diapers. Cruising families suddenly find that children are better behaved than they were at home, and even other people somehow look nicer-good enough to wave at. They can search the primitive labyrinthine waters of Florida's Everglades, wake to the spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons...
...perhaps too impetuously, eloped at 19. Currently he takes a sternly parental view: "We all know that indiscriminate kissing, dancing in the dark, hanging around in cars, late dates at this early stage can lead to trouble. And that you miss a lot of fun with the nicer play-by-the-rules crowd . . . Kissing is not a game. Believe me ... Kissing for fun is like playing with a beautiful candle in a roomful of dynamite...
...extreme to the other. "Intelligence plus," wrote one girl. "Extremely conceited," claimed another. The consensus, however, was that the Harvard man is "well-read, diversified--the ideal date." One said that he is "less socially adept" than his Ivy League counterpart, but she added, "I think they're nicer...
Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. In this big, incisive, good-humored account, Monty is sometimes not much nicer to his friends and allies than he was to his wartime enemies...
...animals are nice, particularly nice for little kids, but they seem much nicer than they are. All nice things have their limits. Cambridge animals are taking too many liberties; Cambridge citizens are becoming second-class animals. This trend must stop...