Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down his reactions to things literary, political, social and philosophical at the drop of a stamp. He had great friendships and great enmities, usually with the same people, and wrote them all down at white heat. He was often wrongheaded, but even his most outrageous opinions generally nick a vein...
...convinced me of the statistical advantage and therefore talked me into jumping is Nick Soutter, a junior from Dedham who lives in Adams House. He has done more to promote sport parachuting at Harvard than all other skydivers at the College have done since 1957, when the Crimson won this country's first intercollegiate parachute tournament...
...school for brainy tykes that Nick attends is bent on detaching him from his kookie guardian, and sends a man-woman social worker team to investigate. With the arrival of these visitors from the small, strange planet of Social Science, the evening rockets into hilarity. The woman (Sandy Dennis) is a girl with dew-behind-the-ears charm and a tendency to fountain into tears of self-reproach at her own unsociological impulses: "I hate Raymond Ledbetter. and he's only nine years...
...keep Nick. Murray must go back to his old TV job. Murray's notion of re-ingratiating himself is to look out of his agent's mid-Manhattan office window and remark casually. "Why, there's King Kong sitting on top of the Seagram Building. He's crying. Someone should have told him they don't make buildings the way they used to." Out of the squawk box on the agent's desk comes the brassy voice of Chuckles the Chipmunk (Gene Saks) to put the whammy on Murray's whimsy. The ensuing...
...more sapient director might have restrained Kendra Stearns (Mae) from overacting quite so much, but it is difficult to see what anyone could have done with Gooper (Robert Higgins) or Doctor Baugh (Nick Pyle), except perhaps not casting them. John van Sickle, on the other hand, was quite adequate as Reverend Tooker...