Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long and now stood, at last, in the sun. "You must decide on May 26," he said at Reading of the coming Big Four meeting, "whether you want me to go or somebody else.'' ''You. you!" some of the listeners shouted. "It's very nice of you to say that," replied Anthony Eden...
...most violent opponent in the area was Mrs. Charles Sandoz, who listed automobiles of the estimated 120 new families and the "desperately cheap houses for such a nice neighborhood" among her objections...
...girls from Harvard come to see us," she wrote. "We enjoy having them with us. We play games. Today they brought some paint for our fingers. Ellen combed and set my hair. We also play cards. They take us out walking and we have interesting conversations. It is very nice to see such a fine class of boys and girls...
...where 22-year-old boys slip,cyanide into their parents' champagne; where middle-aged mothers and grandmothers moon like adolescents over a toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their and our records in the above-mentioned areas of crime...
Author Kronenberger has a nice way of seeing his subjects both as men and as writers, and, when the shoe fits (as in the case of Gibbon), as dullish people redeemed by works of genius. Quite clearly, Kronenberger's ideal is 18th century England, where style "was not just a matter of stance and stride, of paying a compliment or wearing a coat. It was something men commanded in the stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown...