Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extravagantly profane Hollywood sprang up. In 1954 the Italians produced 152 films, close to two-thirds as many as were made by all the major U.S. studios combined. And if the Italian producers were not too successful in their efforts to imitate Hollywood, the Italian actresses were outstandingly nice to look at. However, two producers who were not trying too hard to make money, Jean Renoir and Renato Castellani, made two of the year's most beautiful color pictures: The Golden Coach and Romeo and Juliet...
...tiger hunt and bows to street crowds,* the Marshal and the Indian Premier closeted themselves for talks about matters of "great significance." Tito's brand of independent Communism has a high curiosity value among Indian intellectuals, who hate capitalism, believe in state planning, and wish there were some nice kind of Communism. Nehru is also intrigued by Tito's ability to stand apart from the West while dependent...
...Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Sainteny defined his objective as "preventing bridges being burned," argued that the Vietnamese people of Hanoi must surely need French culture, and that French technical assistance might create a Tito out of Ho. More skeptical Westerners shook their heads. "Sainteny's a nice fellow," said one, "but he believes in fairies...
...Anxiety. What distinguishes the comfortable young men of today from the uncomfortable young men of the last hundred years is that for once the younger generation is not in revolt against anything. We don't want to rebel against our elders. They are much too nice to be rebellable-agamst. Old revolutionaries as they are they get rather cross with us and tell us we are stuffy and prudish, but even this can't provoke us into hostility. Our fathers brought us up to see them not as the representatives of ancient authority and unalterable...
...Milwaukee, Vagrant Meredith P. Lowe. 35, held on $100 bail after he admitted romancing 300 women and obtaining money from 30 to 40 of them, denied any specific success formula: "I really don't try to swindle them; women are lonesome, and I just treat 'em nice, make 'em feel like real people, and tell them I like them and they'd make a wonderful wife...