Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
...Happened to Jane (Arwin; Columbia). "Why,'' asks a small boy, gazing up into the homely face of Ernie Kovacs, "are you so mean?" Smugly lipping his expensive Havana, Kovacs simpers like a contented cigargoyle at one of the nicest things anybody has ever said to "the meanest man in the world." As such, and proud of it, Comic Kovacs turns a fairly unfunny script into a funny farce-the success story of a self-made monster...
...usual Arthur Freeman has written the nicest things in the issue. Two little poems "Atthis" and "A Pigeon Killed on Beacon Street" move quickly with their short lines and light rhythm; and a delightful irony masks satire in one and resignation in the other. Piero Heliczer's two poems are more lyrical. In P, his lack of punctuation, paucity of long syllables, and predominance of soft consonant sounds combine to produce an attractive whispering quality...
...thumb (George Pal; MGM) is one of the nicest Christmas presents Hollywood ever gave the pigtail-and-popgun set. Producer George Pal has managed to mingle puppets, live actors and animated cartoons with such skill that not once can the spectator see the embarrassing seam where two sorts of cinema meet. As a piece of entertainment, the film is unusually fresh and appealing; it is kid stuff, but it will probably sell a lot of popcorn to the grownups...
Animals are nice, dogs especially nice. Ask anyone they'll tell you the dog is nicest of all. Man's best friend in fact, or so they say. We think dogs are nice, too, nice in the home, before the roaring mid-December hearth, playing with the children. But dogs snarling at depositors in the Cambridge Trust are hard to take, and St. Bernards who challenge the road-rights of Massachusetts Avenue automobiles and pedestrians hardly help solve the problem of traffic in the Square...