Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duggan's name, Mundt said, had cropped up at a secret hearing held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities early in December. At that time, Russian-born Isaac Don Levine, an ex-Hearstling who edits the anti-Communist publication Plain Talk and who collaborated with General W. G. Krivitsky on his memoirs, had made a damaging charge. He said that in 1939 he had heard ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers tell former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle that Duggan was one of six men from whom Communists had obtained secret documents...
Such were the beginnings of the University of Wisconsin, 100 years ago. Last week Wisconsin's Historian Merle Curti concluded that today's students would have found little, to their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with. But many a 19th Century student remembered his campus days as the time of his life. Naturalist John Muir, leaving Madison in 1863, had paused on a high hill to look back "with streaming eyes" at the Wisconsin campus "where I had spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful...
...also a year in which literary figures were allowed to speak for themselves: Andre Gide's Journal, Vol. 2, rich with evidence of the creative mind's way of work; Franz Kafka's morbid Diaries; Anton Chekhov's plain, warm Private Papers; Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters in Untriangulated Stars which told the painful story of an American poet's struggle for survival...
From then on, it was plain that Sawyer had come to extend the hand of fellowship to businessmen. Though the talk was vague on taxes, controls, etc., Sawyer hoped for "a new philosophy of cooperation that will unite Americans ... to make the greatest use of our energies and our resources...
Editors Morley & Everett had hoped that their 1937 edition would serve until 1960. "But by 1940 it was plain that enlargement was already desirable. Man in his Penultimate War was saying words that had to be recorded." Voices that had seemed too faint in the '30s (Winston Churchill was not even included) were now fairly screaming for attention. Result: the editors have left Bartlett unchanged from Poet Caedmon (A.D. 670) to Poet Rudyard Kipling, but from there on nobody will recognize the old household...