Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buckshot, burst cluster after cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...
Trusteeships. The organization so painfully being born in San Francisco must deal with the causes of war. Plain as midday was the fact that some of the prime causes of future war may lie in the struggling rise of what the technicians call "dependent peoples." In their millions they are discovering nationalism, industrialization, education and power...
...point of the show is plain: even in wartime, U.S. artists have remained notably unregimented and uninhibited; they paint as they please. Dr. Jermayne MacAgy sums it up in her catalogue introduction : "A few years ago . . . mannered representations of the 'American Scene' publicized an artificial point of view. . . . Today, there is no better reflection of America's international attitude than the . . . cosmopolitan vision among artists...
...then to "Back Home." With a wife & child, five battle-stars and a Purple Heart, Cartoonist Mauldin has 127 points-far more than the 85 he needs to get his Army discharge. In Rome last week, after five years of Army and two years of war, he made it plain that he was tired of being a soldier...
Despite lack of money, life in that plain farm home was good: "There on that farm I lost all fear of poverty. I learned to live most simply, and I learned to get a great joy out of work. It never occurred to me in those years that the lack of money was of any consequence. I grew up to believe wholly and completely in men and women who lived simply, frugally, and in fine faith. I learned that fear was inspired in men and women who could not reconcile themselves to the possibility that hardship and sacrifice might confront...