Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate." The delegates cheered the 18-minute speech, gave Ike a standing ovation at the end. He was the third President to come personally before the A.F.L. in its 73 years (the other two: Wilson in 1917, Hoover in 1930), and afterward even Meany noted "a lot of nice things" about the Eisenhower Administration. Obviously, the A.F.L.'s condemnation was neither unanimous nor strongly felt...
Anyway, it was Balanchine, and he is a genius, as everybody knows. Even if Ivesiana wasn't very clear, it was fun, and so the crowd gave the cast a nice hand at the end. Next day most of Manhattan's mystified dance reviewers declined to evaluate the ballet, although they paid their respects to distinguished Composer Ives (an insurance broker who pioneered polytonal music in the U.S. in his spare time, died this year at 79). But the Daily News's Douglas Watt found something positive to report about the ballet in Allegra Kent...
...Priestley, in his comments on the new sadism, explains the matter quite thoroughly, except that the British do not make a cult of masculinity, as we do ... In America, however, grandmaws and tiny tots alike throng to the movies, where filmdom's masterminds charitably make room for a nice, big torture scene" in color . . . After all, the young punks share in our 3% annual rise in productivity and have more cars, more money, more switchknives, and more idle time to read and re-enact the immortal works of Mickey Spillane...
From Hearst Columnist Elsa Maxwell, the rich man's Boswell, came breathless reports of voyagers at sea in international society. Cruising aboard a rented yacht for a month's relaxation were U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Winthrop Aldrich ("a nice man in spite of being ambassador") and his wife Harriet. They were among the 60-odd who joined Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis for a drink on his yacht, "a small ocean liner ... a swimming pool that turns into playing fountains and then-into a dance floor...
Today, Hugh Matheson is a happy man. Between his race bets and his classes, which he handles with the silky self-assurance of a side-show barker, he makes a nice living doing what he likes most to do. He is not even bothered by the inevitable wise guy who asks him why he needs to teach if he can really run up big profits at the track. "This is just an excuse to get horse players together so I can sell the idea of a U.S. Sweepstakes," says the professor glibly. "A sweepstakes is just what this country needs...