Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bristling Messages. In classic diplomatic fashion, Dwight Eisenhower moved surefootedly on these fundamentals of security to dampen the flash points of potential outbreak. Specifically, he set about 1) making plain to the world in the forum of the U.N. that Communism had again shown itself morally bankrupt after the barbarous suppression of satellite independence; 2) stopping the Egypt tinderbox fighting before the Russians had the chance and the time to pour in "volunteers...
...boots and talk about his (very valid) friendship with Ike. But voters remembered that Texasborn Dan Thornton spends much of his time away from Colorado and that, as governor, he had tried to revise the bookkeeping on Colorado's old-age-pension system. They sent Democrat John Carroll, plain-spoken and obviously homegrown, to the Senate...
Offstage, Pianist Haskil is a plain woman who wears no makeup to conceal the traces of suffering that line her face, but her features are livened by wisdom and humor. She was a prodigy, made her debut in Vienna at the age of nine, and won a Grand Prix at the Paris Conservatory at 14. After World War I, illness forced her into temporary retirement; later she took up playing sonatas with such greats as Ysaye, Enesco, Casals. She has appeared at the Casals festivals in France, and it was one of her younger colleagues there, Pianist Eugene Istomin...
Leverett House had the noble idea of honoring Shaw's hundredth birthday by performing two of his one-act plays. Although neither is more than mediocre, enthusiastic acting often makes a potentially plain evening bright...
...Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never appeared; it was as if the world were one vast, closed powder room. And though the scriptwriters have kept the play's plain plot (gossip wrecks marriage, husband marries golddigger, wife gets him back), they have jazzed it up with plenty of new wisecracks-some of them acute, others merely cute...