Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Monro called Harvard's participation in the project "one of the nicest things that has happened to us in years. The 'comprehensive' idea is an essential part of democracy," he added, pointing out that such a system eliminates "elites" and the "tremendous strain of having to prove yourself at age eleven...
...Nicest of all is the generous helping of old favorites like "Georgia Brown," "Stormy Weather" or "Poor Wayfaring Stranger." In songs like these, the 16 pleasant voices of the group are confident, controlled, quite professional, and ever so much better than the ragged Whiffenpoofs...
MARTHA (sighing). Plenty, thanks. Let's get started. I'm so anxious to see the people--that's always been the nicest part of our work. I want to see how they eat, and what they wear--how they make their children behave...
...world in which God and the devil are constantly in contention, in which imps, cabalistic mysteries and ancient Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these eleven stories tells how Satan ruins the nicest girl in town. Satan contrives that Lise should marry a brilliant, homely scholar who is a secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before it could be made pure. Lise is corrupted by her husband's obscene sexual instruction. When...
According to the steamy 24-sheets, Return "begins where Peyton Place left off." The main characters, though portrayed by different actors, are the same, and so is the theme that the nicest people have the filthiest minds. The plot is obviously patterned on the author's own frantic life. Like Author Metalious. Heroine Allison (Carol Lynley) writes a naughty bestseller about life in her own home town, makes a stack of chips and a mess of trouble. Because of the book, her stepfather (Robert Sterling), principal of the local high school, loses his job-in real life, the author...