Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other officers elected were Francis X. Mahoney '55 of Eliot House and Dorchester as vice-president; Lawrence M. Curtin '57 of Apley Hall and Los Angeles as secretary; Dennis J. Looney, Jr. '56 of Dudley Hall and Jamaica Plain as treasurer; and David E. Herlihy '56 of Dudley Hall and Roslindale as publicity director...
Back from World War II and faced with his and Brace's emotional bankruptcy, Dick decides that "the earth does not belong to the good, the wise or the gentle, but to the adaptable." He adapts himself to a plain Jane who wants nothing more than to give him a son and heir. But Brace has dipped too deeply into her dwindling moral capital. When a second marriage ends on the rocks, she becomes an alcoholic, finally commits suicide...
...stuff it into telephones, slot machines, parking meters, and the like, without notable success. At last, the aggravated token holder will trudge through the turnstiles once again, step from the platform, betwixt the sliding doors to disappear forever in the oblivion of a one-way trip to Jamaica Plain...
...portraits opposite and the farm and genre scenes on the following page well illustrate Walker's text. In them a plain-Jane, a complacent family, a fruitful farm and a brutal sport are presented head on, neatly and with no nonsense. Yet the girl's iron coiffure, the bilateral symmetry of the family's bird cages, the minted gold sky over the farmstead and the shoe-button eyes of the battle royal's 129 spectators are vivid touches for all their technical clumsiness...
...Inside Struggle, it becomes plain that Honest Harold was anything but a happy bureaucrat from the end of 1936 to the end of 1939. His devotion to President Roosevelt did not pay off in the new powers Ickes craved, and the New Deal itself, he thought, was being scuttled by renegade Democrats who had ridden into office on F.D.R.'s coattails. Roosevelt himself seemed to have turned his back on the New Dealers. By the spring of 1939, Secretary of the Interior Ickes was "tired of being doublecrossed and pushed around" by F.D.R., so "sore and bruised of spirit...