Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, it was not plain that Sullivan agreed. To discourage viewers from looking at Allen's opening show this Sunday, Sullivan, no man to stand still while being shot at, was celebrating his show's eighth anniversary with a dazzling array of 43 guests, most of them from Hollywood...
...Searchers (C. V. Whitney; Warner) is another excursion into the patented Old West of Director John Ford. The place is Texas, three years after the Civil War, and the lone figure moving across the vast plain is none other than lean, leathery, disenchanted John Wayne, still wearing bits of his Confederate uniform, still looking for trouble. Trouble finds him. One day, while John's back is turned, Chief Scar and his wild Comanches swoop down and massacre his relatives, carrying off two young girls for their own fell purposes...
...Does the city desk know where to reach you at all times?" New York Post Editor James Wechsler asked nervously, as he sent his Reporter Ted Poston, a Negro, to Montgomery, Ala. for a series on the plight of the Negro there. But, as Poston's series made plain in the Post last week, there was no cause for alarm. Reporter Poston, 49, who was roughed up while covering the Scottsboro case in 1933, explored the city of the 6½-month-old Negro bus boycott for three weeks and found no danger, little tension-and plenty of help...
What Albers sets himself to visualizing for the purpose of making pictures was made plain last week in a retrospective show of his art at the Yale University Art Gallery. There were squares within squares done in colors straight from the tube, and more complicated geometrical arrangements done in black, grey and white. At first view the show was simply forbidding; in time it became a puzzle, and finally a demonstration...
...purpose of art teaching is chiefly to impart knowledge and skills, it should be as scientific in spirit as Albers makes his courses. But in terms of his own art the answer is harder. If the paint-slinging frenzies of the abstract expressionists strike most people as being plain convulsive, Albers' pristine experiments give rise to the opposite complaint: that they are too tricky and cold...