Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nice Applause. Gorky-born Ashkenazy is a kind of Volga Huckleberry Finn who has made good. He won the Queen Elisabeth competition at Brussels when he was barely 19, the Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow at 25, and since then has stormed every important auditorium in the world...
...speaks it fluently. He has recently gone out of his way to make a second career as a duo pianist, sharing the billing with St. Louisian Malcolm Frager. And though still wryly withdrawn, he has lately come to admit that he likes Americans in general: "The applause is so nice; American audiences are so very, very warm...
...wrapping paper are cutting satires. "They are not caricatures," Steinberg insists. "They are the faces, the masks of the middle class. What people do, especially in America, is to manufacture a mask of happiness for themselves. They put a perpetual, reassuring smile on their faces; it makes them look nice, friendly and healthy, and we don't have to worry about them...
...very painful," Callas insisted after she signed the necessary papers, even though "the Americans never really considered me an American." But then she admitted: "Freedom is so nice." It is indeed. It means virtual divorce from U.S. income taxes as well as from Meneghini. As an American citizen living abroad, Callas had to pay on all her earnings over $25,000, a considerable amount. As a Greek, she has to pay U.S. taxes only on what she earns...
...perseverance can pay. From The Polite Americans' morass, the patient reader can pick out a few dry footpaths to a reasonable comprehension of the country's character. It would have been nice, though, and this would certainly have been a better book, if the author had required of the reader a little less perseverance and of himself a little more perspicacity...