Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing restive over the implications of the Truman Doctrine-if only because it bore the name of the Democrat's 1948 presidential candidate. Last week the origin of the doctrine, the aid-to-Greece-and-Turkey bill, arrived on the floor of the House. The G.O.P. made it plain that every man would vote for himself. The result: four days of shrill and contentious debate which reminded observers of nothing so much as the lurid neutrality fight...
...moral problem which the indictment raised was plain. If Farben was proved guilty, did those who had dealt with Farben share the guilt? If wars could not be fought without the help of industrialists, then were not businessmen, in the final analysis, the real warmakers? That was what the U.S. War Crimes Commission seemed to hold in its newest Nürnberg indictment...
...nation's life. The curse of this narrative cliché can be dispelled only by unusually original and vivid characterizations. Unfortunately, most of the characters in this film, although well acted, are close to cliche themselves. (One up for the British: most of the wives are plain women and most of the marriages are convincingly beautiful.) The second difficulty: it is all but impossible to communicate the crucial source of a war prisoner's suffering-monotony-without making the movie itself too monotonous to sit through. The makers of this film have not quite solved this dilemma. There...
...Guthrie Jr. grew up in Choteau, Mont., where his father was the first high-school principal in the county. The dazzling air and blue immensity of the Rockies, the profound distances of" the Great Plain: are memorably present in his novel...
...simply rhetorical; the answer is yes. "Who today can doubt," he concludes, "which it was . . . the 'exiles' or the stay-at-homes who contributed most in the way of positive direction to American letters. . . ?" Stay-at-home readers may find his answer, like his question, rhetorical-or plain silly...