Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This attitude affects newspaper criticism as well as audience opinion. The newspaper critic, says Kerr, "finds that if he's seen a 'soso' play or a 'nice little show,' he can't say it that way in print. He has to come from the opening and say it's brilliant, it's wonderful." As a result, many a producer and director charges the critics with too often being "shallow" or "dull." "When a critic praises a play," says the Mirror's Coleman, "he is a wonderful critic . . . When he pans...
...worries me is that a military career for a Negro is about the top he can get." A Negro G.I. said it in a different way: the Negro "begins to see the fellows getting along in the Army and begins to say to himself, it would be so goddam nice if it could be like that all over...
World War II is the answer to Alastair's orisons. A nice job in the British Treasury puts him in contact with the moneybags of Washington, and by novel's end. he is heading smartly for Wall Street after deliberately (and symbolically) burning to the ground the romantic home of his ancestors...
...broken elbow. Swarthout, who races "strictly for the laughs," since there is no prize money for micro addicts, buzzed home first in the main race. Afterward, the hat was passed, and the drivers collected $276.72 for the March of Dimes. Grinned Top-Winner Swarthout: "It was a real nice afternoon-for a grandfather...
...unable to cope with life. At first, life on the island was the idyl they had dreamed, but when their money ran out and children came, the cruel business of earning a living in a hard country turned romance into a poverty-draped nightmare. With charity, economy, and a nice sense of fictional pace. Author Etnier generates complete sympathy for weaklings who learn too late that the price of calculated romanticism comes high...