It's one of those nice-Nelly terms that throttle our ability to discuss the race problem without hypocrisy.

She has her knees; her stumps-we never use nice-nelly evasions for that word-have healed magnificently and are clean and powerful guarantees of her recovery.

This country can make a damned fool of itself if it tries in a nice-nelly way to eliminate all evidence of the fact that we are animals who inhabit a natural world.