Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bullock's Wilshire, tony Los Angeles department store, went after war-workers' dollars; Macy's, New York's people's store, waved farewell to the bon ton trade. Phonograph shops discovered a new kind of customer: not young swing collectors, not symphony lovers, but plain people asking for Old Black Joe and My Old Kentucky Home...
Granting, then, the desirability of knowing these authors, it is still, plain that the September Authors examination should not be given when a majority of the men tested will have spent a busy summer here in the College. Whether the field should be covered in tutorial or in some omnibus Authors course is an entirely separate consideration--the fact remains that the September examination should be recognized for the rest of the war like the leisurely four-year program, as a thing of the past...
...right on the sea, with big mountains almost down to the water's edge. There were barricades on both sides where the lines stop, maybe half a mile apart. We dropped to 1,000 feet so the Filipinos could see us, so everything was right below us and plain. We could see the trucks and horses on both sides of the lines, and a little forest where the Filipinos on their side and the Japs on theirs were cooking breakfast. It was the same scene exactly, only parted in the middle...
...peculiar and important thing about this new, and conspicuously informal, American classic is that it belongs far less to the literate reader than to those who read so little that talk can still mean more to them than print-provided it be plain and friendly, sensible talking. For Sherwood Anderson's life story has many things in common with their own, and so has his way of telling...
...orchids. But such people may take comfort in the thought that Professor Spykman is not infallible, that the cult of realism has its own limitations and coldbloodedness leads to its own kind of distortion. To others, tired of statesmanship by euphemism and eye-catching phonies, Spykman's plain talking seems a bracing corrective...