Word: nick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history professor, and his wife Martha lead lives of noisy, clawing desperation. Martha is drunk, vituperative-she brays "Screw you" at George at the precise moment that the door opens on her guest couple, invited in at 2 a.m. for a nightcap after a faculty party. By rights, Nick, the young biology professor, and his wife Honey ought to squirm and leave, but Honey is a remarkably opaque ninny who promptly proceeds to get throwing-up drunk on brandy, and Nick proves to be made of sneakily ambitious stuff that will not permit him to turn his back...
...show called. Saints and Sinners (NBC). To give it the benefit of the doubt, it is the worst television program since Playhouse go did Kay Thompson's Eloise. It is certainly the phoniest city-room drama since The Front Page. "I went out," says the reporter hero (Nick Adams), "and I dug for it, and the deeper I dug the dirtier it got." Even the cutting is tabloid cheap. A man puts a gun at another's temple and prepares to fire. Fadeout...
...people amuse themselves by swapping anecdotes about what they were doing when they got the news of Pearl Harbor. But the reader, seduced by the perfectly tailored prose and the quiet delight of well-mannered comedy, may be led to overlook the muscular structure of Powell's art. Nick Jenkins is no Prince Hamlet, but as an attendant lord he misses nothing; his eyebrows are often raised, never his voice. Human action, Powell seems to be saying, is of primary importance in itself but secondary to the movements of history. The climactic events of the times take place while...
...opening flashback to the eve of World War I, Nick Jenkins is a small boy living in his father's country house at Stonehurst. The servants and the horses are in their quarters. The chef is good. All seems secure. There are no local portents of doom except a hysterical maid who appears to serve the mousse stark naked and is promptly whisked belowstairs in a Madras shawl...
...Nick Jenkins, who has come to a remote seaside hotel to bury his tiresome Uncle Giles, runs across the bounderish Duport, an Eton and Oxford acquaintance whose wife has briefly been Nick's mistress. From Duport, Nick learns that his beloved Jean has been unfaithful not only to Duport (an event of which Duport is mercifully unaware) but to Nick. The classic comedy of cuckold and lover and the excruciating embarrassments involved have seldom been done so well in English. There is a party at the castle of Sir Magnus Donners, "the great industrialist," who is widely suspected...