Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warm discovery was that, even after two decades of Communist propaganda, the people on the whole are friendly to Americans. "I have a sister in Cleveland," a Rumanian farmer said to Rademaekers. "Please send her my love." "America," mused a Hungarian boy. "That is a nice word." "Are you an American?" asked an elderly Pole at a party. "Then...
...believe. There isn't exactly a plot, except that a couple of people get married at the end. Every reasonable beginning of a complication gets more or less forgotten or patched up in the following scene. One entire love interest, for example, which inspires a song (a pretty nice one) that Dean Stolber sings three times in all, simply evaporates...
...Nice People's Escape." Why did they go? In his 1964 book, The Urban Complex, Robert Weaver reasoned: "It is an escape from changing neighborhoods, lower-class encroachment, inadequate public services and inferior schools. It is running away from the ugly facts of urban life; facts that have always existed, but never for long on the doorstep of 'nice people' who had the option of escape...
...Mickey Mantle endorse your shaving cream, manufacturers might well consider what Andy's painstaking pop pictures did for Campbell Soups. As yet no helium or whip manufacturers have called up for the artist's endorsement, and what Andy really wants is to lend his name to some nice Manhattan restaurant, which in turn would agree to keep him and his entourage in sandwiches and beer up in his loft. But kindly don't send any of those canvas Oldenburgers...
...searching for some author to package them up in a novel. So Newsman Allen Drury wrote Advise and Consent. Of course there was a sequel-A Shade of Difference-but now the troubles have started for Novelist Drury; he has begun to write about ordinary people. They are the nice upper-middle-class inhabitants of Greenmont, Calif., a summer colony 6,000 feet up in the Sierras. Greenmont is slightly more exclusive than the U.S. Senate; residential memberships are restricted to 75. It is also much duller. The blurred argle-bargle of private thoughts is so much less interesting than...