Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harlech, 49, is well connected in both Britain and the U.S., where his friends from New Frontier days consider him practically part of the clan. "He has a nice urbanity and a rather sardonic view of people and events," says Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Adds Economist John Kenneth Galbraith: "He has the savoir-faire, the savviness, the wisdom that Harold Macmillan had 25 years ago." Also like Macmillan, to whom he is related by marriage, Harlech has profited by a set of thoroughly gilt-edged circumstances. His father served for 28 years as a Tory...
...Calif. Moonfaced and round-eyed, gold of hair and heart sweet little Annie lived in a nether world of town bullies and murderous Russian spies, karate chops and megaton bombs. And for those readers who followed Annie's antics in some 400 papers and sometimes wondered how a nice girl could get into all that trouble. Harold Gray had a ready answer: "Sweetness and light-who the hell wants it? Murder, rape and arson. That's what stories are made...
...urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent of the performances of the late Lenny Bruce. No detail is varnished, no lust or act nice-Nellied as Portnoy complains, clowns and laments in his desperate efforts to claw his way to sanity. The result is a spontaneous emotional release of enormous authenticity and power...
...young man who has somehow transcended his whiteness. He is the man, they tell you, who spent his time during the Kennedy administration pleading for the Negro through the South. He has given tremendous amounts of money--10 percent of his worth, one lady claimed--to SCLC. He talks nice, he cares. He reminds some of them of his late brother. For others, he is quite literally John Kennedy...
...with no hands, apparently to prove that time does not count. Sometimes hay tiempo also means late planes, canceled tours and misplaced hotel reservations. "We're trying as hard as we can to be more efficient," says one tour official, "but the tourist must forgive. Relax, maybe something nice will happen...