Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations boosters to celebrate Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's 70th birthday, Andrei Vishinsky, Russia's chief delegate to the U.N., dropped in as a surprise guest. When the festivities ended, Vishinsky warmly shook hands with one of his tablemates, a self-confessed Republican. "You are a very nice young man," glowed Communist Vishinsky. "If I were an American, I would be a Republican...
There are very nice songs like There's a Small Hotel, but Rodgers gave the show a ballet rather than top-drawer show music, and Hart gave it lyrics that tend to shout their cleverness. It is the Rodgers-Hart-Abbott libretto, however, that lays a curse upon the evening-the look, if ever there was one, of three men on an elephant...
...plot revolves around a handsome wide-smiling, fatherly ex-general (Dean Jagger) whose ownership of a nice old white inn in Vermont (remember the inn in Holiday Inn?) is endangered by business conditions. Two of his former men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye), who since the war have made a big success in show business, come to his rescue. They throw a benefit at the inn, and call on all the old man's old soldiers to help out. Meanwhile, they are able to do a good turn for a sister act (Rosemary Cloonev and Vera-Ellen...
...Scott Fitzgerald's wastebasket and imagines what became of them in the harsh morning after the tender night. Among the characters: a young, rich Greek god from the Middle West who is soul-sick for no clearly apparent reason; a flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles" turn into "a covey of sitting ducks." One of them also turns into...
...nobody else at all. That, as James Joyce, Sean O'Casey and a dozen others have proved, is fine up to a point, but sooner or later even the most sympathetic reader gets tired of a literary chosen people. Short Story Writer Frank O'Connor has a nice way of making his people look, feel and sound like anyone else. Any reader might find himself saying: there but for lack of poteen, a certain uneasiness about sex and a wary relationship with the parish priest...