Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrated on closeups, and apparently aimed at the style of the recitative. Speeches were delivered with ringing clarity, and Shakespeare's vivid imagery made up for the TV version's many lacks. Theodore Bikel's fat Caesar was rich in pomposity and human infirmity. A nice scene showed him eagerly cupping his deaf ear to catch each glowing word of flattery from the conspirator luring him to his death...
...more than 60 newsmen, the Russians crisscrossed Iowa for days. "The Russians are coming" became a popular cry. At Guy Stover's farm near Reinbeck, a lone demonstrator turned up with a sign: "There is no freedom in Russia." Mrs. Stover burst into tears, crying: "We wanted everything nice and friendly." A local minister wrested the sign away before the Russians noticed...
...that new breed of managers: the nice guys. Like Brooklyn's Walter Alston and Boston's Pinky Higgins, he never felt the need for loudmouthed bluster. Slats was the man who was managing the St. Louis Browns in 1953, when they became the Baltimore Orioles, and he said out loud that he had a lousy ball club. He was fired for his honesty. "Defeatist," mumbled the Orioles' General Manager Arthur Ehlers, choosing a strange word to describe the skinny scrapper who had made himself "Mr. Shortstop" on the red-hot St. Louis Cardinals...
Robert Ryan bosses a little band of thieves with a nice military precision. He and his men are ex-G.I.s. and they play their game like an army patrol in action...
...Maude Parker (243 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), has the virtue of an unusual setting: a dude ranch in Wyoming. However, there is one trouble with leaving a really despicable intended victim too long on the scene: the reader rather hates to see a murder rap pinned on any of the nice folks who are left...