Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course. Sole support. Work' in the mines all summer." Here you simply but dramatically turn your dirt-grimed and work-beaten palms to the assembled company. Since you have had the foresight to rub your hands in the loam outside the entry and since, as a matter of plain truth, you spent the entire summer rowing stroke for the Buffalo Yacht Club eight, your story will be unhesitatingly accepted. The assembled company will blush for shame for having so heartlessly tantalized you. If some of them happen to owe you money, so much the better...
According to Moskoff the major problem of the investigators is the kind of subversive being sought and dismissed; "It is plain that any person who actively supports a totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership . . . in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the Ku Klux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action...
...position of the intellectual is influential, it is also precarious. That the words "academic freedom" and "free inquiry" are in many quarters regarded as little more than cliches is evidence of this split status. The pressure is to conform, but it is only too plain that a Russian Research Center report slanted to fit the views of a particular political party is more than worthless--it becomes a positive danger. And when a natural scientist finds that his fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity...
...Reader Streitz look at the Aug. 30 issue again. And for a plain and simpler Tanguy...
...biggest jump was in mercury, which has soared over 85% from the January low of $187 for a 76-lb. flask. Last week mercury rose another $4 to $6 a flask, causing one veteran trader to complain that "the market's just plain crazy." But there was a reason: producers were not running their mines full tilt to take care of big new demands for the metal (e.g., in the atomic field) for fear that the demand would disappear while they were spending a lot of money expanding. But when the Administration recently guaranteed the producers a fixed market...