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...faculty advisor Mrs. Mary V. Mabry into his office and, according to the account which the Herald subsequently printed of the meeting, Dean Jones "reprimanted [the Herald representatives] for printing allegedly controversial subjects." Jones charged, the Herald reports, that the paper was 'negative,' and he 'suggested we write about nicer things than we have been reporting...
...Kilgo, director and owner of the Boston franchise, tells the story this way. "We opened all 25 centers within one month with no preparation and no advertising. There was just nobody with any practical business experience involved. Soon five centers in the South went bankrupt--sold out is a nicer way to put it..." Faith, evidently, was not enough...
...years now government officials have insisted that one of the nicer aspects of the Vietnam war has been the Administration's refusal to indulge in much Red-baiting at home to inflame militaristic spirits. In general, this has been the case -- a few Republicans sputtered infrequently and the House Un-American Activities Committee staged a quickly aborted show last summer, but the Administration gave the general appearance of remaining a bit more tolerant. Things have changed...
...look ridiculous if housed next door to a morose musk ox or an albino bandicoot. Even the labels may go wrong, and the surly, myopic wombat is advertised as a Thomson's gazelle. But the zoogoers don't mind. They have always known that some animals are nicer than others. So it is with anthologies; they are compiled for those who have been taught to be kind to writers but are nervous as to whether they will be rewarded with a snarl or a civet effluvium in return for the proffered peanut...
...Speak? Speak?" Death on the Installment Plan (1936) records an earlier stage in Ferdinand's life and should be nicer reading, but it is not. It is even more painful, coming as it does, closer to the heart of Céline's anguished theme: innocence violated by life. It is the story of one of the most desolate boyhoods in all fiction. The key incident comes at the end of Ferdinand's stay at an English school to which his parents had sent him. He brutally seduces the only person who had shown him affection-Nora...