Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flower Drum. Pliant and outwardly submissive, yet inwardly serene and sturdy, Mei Li was Miyoshi. Now married to a former TV director, Win Opie, Miyoshi is certain that she wants to continue living in a land where it is really all right to look people in the eyes. "Is nice look at eyes," she says solemnly. "Get to know people that...
FROM THE TERRACE, by John O'Hara. The biggest (897 pages), most ambitious novel of a writer who takes himself more seriously than it is possible to take his most recent books. A potentially nice rich kid from O'Hara's Pennsylvania runs short on character, presumably because of the sins of the father and the social disarrangements of his own time. The O'Hara ear for speech has the relentless giveaway of a tape recorder-but it reels on too long. Head and shoulders above the year's run of the mill, but still...
Finally I met her. When we picked up our term paper assignments. The term paper. God. The only nice thing about it, it wasn't due until April...
Flower Drum Song (music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; book by Mr. Hammerstein and Joseph Fields) proves to be thoroughly professional, has Miyoshi Umeki, Pat Suzuki and other nice performers, has some agreeable dancing, some gorgeous costumes, here proof of a jolly Rodgers and there of a dreamy one. As purely popular musical fare, the show should fare handsomely. But as Rodgers and Hammerstein, it not only lacks the talent of their top-drawer work, it seldom has the touch. Flower Drum Song is passably pleasant in its way, but its way is strictly routine...
...while, the boy (who was called Edward) and the girl (who was called Deborah) propered; they had children. But Hollywood is a wicked place, and soon the nice, wholesome boy began to grow less nice and less wholesome. A friend died, and Edward, like the nice, wholesome boy he once was, tried to console the widow. Edward had become very good at this sort of thing since coming to Hollywood and he did it very well indeed. Soon the widow--who had been in Hollywood too long to be nice and wholesome--was merry, and so was Edward. Deborah, however...