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Nice Column

Published Saturday, November 01, 2003

When I was in grade school in the 1950s my teacher made us read an article about the word nice. The author claimed nice was overused. Everything was nice, he complained. Have a nice day. Be a nice boy. Wasn't that a nice movie? Nice, nice, nice. He was a nice man, and he wanted everyone to stop using nice all the time. He said nice no longer had meaning. I can't say for sure what happened, but his article must have been part of an anti-nice movement, because nice ceased to be a factor in our lives.

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