Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...team that has had to start from scratch, after three years of hit-or-miss or even no competition, under a coach who is fathering a Harvard links squad for the first time, and challenged by weather that Coach Bill Barclay unqualifiedly calls "plain miserable,"--for such a team, a perfect scorecard is nothing short of miraculous...
...interview with Mr. Stassen, Marshal Stalin expressed the belief that the United States and Russia can resolve their differences by cooperation, but the record of proceedings at the Moscow Conference makes it plain the Soviet leaders expect that the United States will eventually do most of the "cooperating." Both Secretary Marshall and Mr. Dulles report that the Four Power conclave split up over the failure of the two major participants to reach even the most limited agreement on key provisons of the German treaty...
...about 1:30, sometimes as late as 2 a.m., the Pope rises from his desk and goes back to the chapel to complete the reading of his Breviary and to say evening prayers. The long day is almost over. The papal bed is large but very plain, with a black iron head and brass knobs. Several of his predecessors used the bed and Pius XI died on it. There, for the next four hours or so, Eugenic Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, sleeps until the beginning...
...majority of Manhattan critics found the film baffling, disappointing, offensive, and, in stretches, plain boring. But a few enjoyed the subtle, tragicomic ironies germinated by Chaplin's powers of intuition, of pure feeling, and of observation. The set pieces of pure slapstick are as skilled and delightful, and as psychologically penetrating, as any Chaplin has ever contrived. The casting (including Victim Margaret .Hoffman) is excellent and there are a couple of dozen fine pieces of characterization and acting, notably by Isobel Elsom and Martha Raye. Working with a new character, and adapting his old, mute artfulness to a medium...