Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straight nose, a high forehead, thinning brown hair and sandy eyebrows. He was broad and short, and it was noted that his shoes had extra-thick soles. His hands were large and hairless with thick, short fingers. He wore only grey-blue suits. Correspondents took him for a plain-clothes cop on a tour of VIP duty, but they soon learned that this was no ordinary MVD gorilla...
...Legitimate. To such G.O.P. reaction, and to the plain fact that whether the Republicans like it or not, their conduct of foreign affairs will be an issue in the 1956 campaign, New York Timesman Arthur Krock last week addressed himself. Wrote Pundit Krock: "Republicans who have been indicating that international perils require the opposition not to attack even the measures and methods by which foreign policy is being conducted by the Administration would sound a little more grown up if they would acknowledge the realities of politics in a free land and the duty of the party out of power...
...support it implies by any hesitancy, inconstancy or lack of frankness. It knows very well that the fate of the German people would be sealed if it tried to barter the confidence and friendship of its allies for the sympathy of the Soviet Union, which has made it plain, at least for the present, that it wants to deny the German people a peaceful future in freedom...
Seldom truly raffish, the show is often just plain dull. There are some attractive Hammerstein lyrics, and the Rodgers score ranges pleasantly from the lilt of A Lopsided Bus to the schmalz of All at Once You Love Her. But the production adds little gloss: the dancing is uninspired, the performing?except for William Johnson as Doc?unimpressive. TV's Judy Tyler is little more than a pretty ingenue, and as the madam, Opera Singer Helen Traubel is wildly though likably miscast...
When in 1945 Professor Irving W. Bailey '07 submitted to the Corporation his plan to reorganize the Department of Botany, there was little opposition expressed among the staff of the famous Jamaica Plain botanical garden. Among the many changes recommended by the plan, the most significant was a suggestion to combine the University's botanical libraries and herbaria, then housed in nine buildings. In their place the plan proposed "a single unit in as close proximity to the Biological Laboratories as possible," leaving only a working; library and herbarium at the Arborctum. Research in Jamaica Plain, it was felt...