Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eavesdropping may not be nice, but it gets niftier all the time. From gleaming electronics factories and grubby back-street workshops has come an ever-subtler array of "surveillance instruments" to penetrate the individual's privacy. The devices are now so easy to plant and so hard to detect that their likely victims-lovers or diplomats, criminals or key executives-can seldom be wholly sure any more that confidential conversations are not being overheard or recorded. Private eyes have become private ears, and they have never been more prosperous. They snoop with "bugs" hidden in hatbands or ballpoint pens...
...poker itself has a nice ring of language. "The raiser came back with a touch, a breath, feeling his way into those checking queens like a man fumbling in the dark." But ultimately the technical side of the novel turns on a confrontation of hands that are bet with a foolishness that belies the experience claimed for the players. Against a pair of tens showing, the Kid's opponent matches a $2,000 bet after three cards on the strength of a possible flush. Win or lose, anyone called The Man ought to be called The Boy for doing...
Mark Meyers' contribution, "Faint Hearts and Fair Ladies," is a short, personal spoof of Harvard emancipation, "the last gasp of the parietals issue." It is a nice bit of whimsy until you realize that Mr. Meyers is serious, the last gasp of provincialism. His facetious suggestion that the University herd streetwalkers into the senior common rooms might once have been funny, but is now only blainel...
...around. He had a certain picture of the world, which he insisted on defending irrespective of evidence. He had little tolerance. He had no respect for religion or the values taught by religion. He wouldn't let his wife talk about actual life in Russia. He was nice to Marina so long as she didn't think counter to him. One time I took him to a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union. It took him by surprise that people could be concerned about the concepts of freedom of speech. He said, 'I couldn...
...forces triumph in Anna, played with slow-burning sensuality by Gunnel Lindblom. Anna's substitute for love is blind animal warmth. "How nice that we don't understand each other," she babbles, unburdening herself to the sullen waiter (Birger Malmsten) she has invited into bed, dumbly grateful that all they have in common is the language of desire. Then, "I wish Ester were dead." To hasten the process, she lets Ester come in and watch...