Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ineffective basketball playing; and of the two books I have from him--one of which is the Essential Works of Socialism--both of which he constantly insisted he needed and neither of which I returned. Of course, the books will go unreturned now, but the thoughts about Nick will not fade--what he gave us is more lasting than the books, if not quite as tangible...
...Nick Minard was a committed socialist. He didn't just sit over coffee at Adams House and identify with the proletariat by wearing work boots and a cloth cap. He worked almost every day of the past two years for people whom he'd never seen and never really knew. He helped lead the Boston area boycott of Farah so that clothing workers in Texas would be able to have a union, and not merely accept what Mister Farah wanted to give them; he picketed in the rain for the Harvard printers' union last spring, trying to remind the university...
...decent and he understood other people's failings. (Sometimes he was too decent: he sold a copy of Michael Harrington's Socialism to my roommate; unfortunately, on credit). Last summer, Nick rented an apartment in Cambridge, from which he could commute to his job in a Boston Liquor factory. He proudly displayed his poster of Karl Marx on one of the apartment walls, and shortly afterwards invited the landlady--a nice, conservative, elderly woman--in for tea. Seeing the Marx poster, the woman asked Nick who the bearded, stern Victorian gentleman was. Nick was not fazed: he explained that...
...latter of which was a protection against any kind of cold barrier borne of sectarian fanaticism. Human beings were never means for him, politically or personally (as if one could separate the two); they were ends in themselves. His fervent belief in socialism was a faith in people. Nick always believed that he saw in people what Michael Harrington, one of his favorite authors, saw: the seed beneath the snow--in the midst of a grade-grubbing, money-chasing, selfish, banal society he saw individuals who wanted desperately to love, desperately to be accepted, and who wanted to cooperate...
Philippe Bennett, the only man to come out above 500 in the foil unit, scored a 2-0 triumph over his opponent. John Major logged a 1-2 record, while Larry White and Nick Tepe notched 1-1 marks...