Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ecuador, and Peru. Throughout the Spanish world plain people felt that they had lost one who had given them not joy, but a bitter and glorious excitement, a pageant of death and of courage, death's enemy...
Last week Russia's city dwellers, always hungry for better times, drew premature cheer from news of the kolkhozes (collective farms). The bread grain crop of wheat and rye was more than half harvested and it had been a good year. Though the Government had said nothing, plain citizens nourished the hope that the long-deferred end of bread rationing might be in sight...
...first book, The Brazilians: People of Tomorrow (John Day; $3), published last week in Manhattan, Dr. Tavares gives a plain, tough appraisal of his country that is bound to wound Brazilian sensibilities. Tavares is a descendant of the famous 17th Century colonial commander, Albuquerque Maranhão. Not many Brazilians without such background would have dared to point out so boldly that...
...justice." One of the titles of the 1,300-odd-year-old office is Keeper of the King's Conscience. "The King's conscience," confided the Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been on many a plain citizen's mind. How was it in that long judicial wig, in the summer? The Lord Chancellor's reply for history: "Very uncomfortable." And ditto for the sack of wool which tradition makes...
Call Me Mister. For the first year, at least, Marlboro plans to admit only 100 students, 60% of them ex-G.I.s, with New England solidly represented. Faculty members will have no ranks or titles; just plain "Mister" will do. (Hendricks picked up that idea at the American University in Biarritz, where he taught English to G.I.s in World War II.) The college will have no rules except those voted at a "town meeting" of faculty and students...