Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come to know two New York crowds," writes Algren, dead serious for once. "One that took its cut off the traffic in horses and fighters around St. Nick's Arena, and the other that took its cut off the traffic in books. Plungers and chiselers alike, I'd found, were less corrupt than Definitive Authorities on D. H. Lawrence. The corruption of the sporting crowd was that of trying to get two tens for a five off you, but the corruption of the throngs of the cocktail Kazins went deeper." For the non-inside dopester, Alfred Kazin...
...Henry cannot smother all, not a capable Glendower (Nick Delbanco) or a roaring mad Scots fighter (Robert Rose as Douglas), and absolutely not the visual effect of a production staged with a Prussian precision of technical detail. Indeed, the only serious technical flaw is in the trying matter of accents in an American production: the lead characters ought to agree on a degree of approximation to the Queen's English and on a pronunciation of Bolingbroke. Otherwise, the Loeb has poured its professional competence freely: there is much swordplay, adequately trained; Donald Soule's stolid set suits the play superbly...
Breyer almost steals the show. But he doesn't, and one of the main reasons is the equally delightful Nick Bunnin, who plays Amy's bachelor uncle. Bunnin is a perfect dirty old man, complete with leers, roving hands, and a lecherous, evil chuckle...
Though there are only five seniors on the squad, the youthful group (ten juniors 15 sophomores) does not lack a veteran core from last year's first eight. Returning lettermen include Captain and Senior Nick Bancroft, who rowed six last year; Senior Doug Robertson (four); Senior Spencer Bordon, (two); and Juniors Harry Pollock (seven) and Mike Dennis (stroke...
...People Trust Us." One problem faced by most Episcopal slum priests is how to fill their all but empty churches. When "Father Nick" Kouletsis took over the East Los Angeles Inner City Mission in 1961, the total congregation of his three churches was less than 100. Father Kouletsis and his two associate priests set up nightly study halls with the cooperation of local schools, organized a summer camp program for local youths, offered their services to two Alcoholics Anonymous chapters. Sunday attendance is still low, but Father Kouletsis believes it more significant, at the moment, that "the people have come...