Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show's greatness rests largely on his refusal to submit to seductive archetype. Those of you who know Bottom as a goodhearted if demented bumbler, Puck as a juvenile sprite, Theseus as a wise Shakespearian justice, or Hippolyta as a content and passive fiancee, are due for the nicest kind of surprise; for in troubling to treat A Midsummer Night's Dream to a "new adaptation," Mayer has restored to us a worthy (and terribly funny) text in which many of us, I would wager, long ago lost interest...
...then proceeded to demonstrate his thanks. Unveiling a team which he claimed "couldn't have carried Princeton's racquets on the court without permission in November," Barnaby sat back and watched a "tremendous win," a 6-3 triumph over the favored Tigers, that allowed Barnaby to retire with the nicest gift of all: national championship number 20 and Ivy League title number 21. Quite gentlemanly of him, wouldn...
SELECTIVE Service Director General Lewis B. Hershey is no ogre. Washington reporters consider him one of the nicest and most accessible high federal officials in town. He is the one man they know will never refuse their late Sunday evening telephone calls to his home for reaction quotes. At 74, he remains quick, articulate, and frighteningly well-informed. Just about the only thing distinguishing him from your kindly grandfather is that he is in charge of the draft and really likes...
...same class, a boy from a suburban Boston school with low 500's on achievement tests, who spelled three words wrong in his essay, was accepted. He was not a "Harvard son," and he was not a great athlete. But his alumni interviewer called him "one of the nicest I've seen this year" and the admissions staff rated his personality...
...similar manner, he said, genetic knowledge tells an organism whether its environmental adaptation has succeeded or failed. "Finding the exact source of this knowledge is one of the nicest bits of detective work we have to do," Lorenz commented...