Word: nastier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing. He is engagingly frank with Steinbaum: "I don't see anything but beasts, scrapping and clawing each other from the beginning of time. I neither invent another world that isn't there, nor do I go whining to my mother because the world is harder and nastier than I expected. I do my best to be harder and nastier than anybody else." While other Nazis have appeared "mad, bureaucratic or spineless" to Steinbaum, the marshal seems "gross, humorous, shrewd, generous and free...
...Nkrumah with a bomb in the border village of Kulungugu last month, they almost got their man. Though it was officially denied that he had been hurt, Osagyefo (Redeemer) was wounded in the right shoulder, spent a week in the hospital wrestling with a high fever and an even nastier set of suspicions...
Although The Third Man is not taken from one of Graham Greene's nastier novels, it is still hard to emerge from it without feeling shaken and upset. The reason is that Carol Reed, who directed it, is clearly a man of as little charity as Greene himself. Rather than resting content with what is, after all, a superb suspense story, he has chosen to exploit the resources of the novel's darker regions with a rather cruel thoroughness...
...Room at the Top, British Novelist John Braine, now 39, became less interested in the Angry Young Mania of his compatriots, joined a Yorkshire branch of the Rotary Club. But by last week, he was once again ready "to retreat completely from a world which every day I find nastier and nastier." Anti-Bomb Activist Braine did not expect to be troubled by the big bad world for long. Reminded of his prophecy of last year that "there won't be a 1962," he alibied: "Perhaps I just slipped a digit. What is a year? At least when...