Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size and effectiveness of Communist China's professional help, the persistence and training of the Red infantry. He had overestimated the effect of his tactical air power. And it soon became cruelly evident that Navarre had offered battle in a bad spot-an open, accessible and easily commanded plain, not on the high ground. Commented Favrel scathingly in Le Monde...
Sorokin usually attributes his early rise in Russia's political and educational circles to "mistaken ideas about my ability" and "just plain luck." To ability and chance, his friends would add firm conviction and a tenacity which has brought him both trouble, in the form of political imprisonment, and fame. "This is my stubbornness," he says: "I regard it a man's main duty to tell the truth as he sees...
...senators are right when they describe themselves as plain and simple sons of the people, the people are a frighteningly pompous lot. During the current hearings of the Mundt (nee McCarthy) Sub-Committee, Senators have wrapped themselves in shrouds of verbiage, valiantly shunning simple phrases...
With his subject and presentation, Thomas was bound to run against comparisons with Wilder's Our Town. The telling difference between the two plays is stylistic. Wilder took very real people taking a plain, often drab language. He enobled the New Englanders by showing their stoic but feeling response to disaster and death. Thomas has limited his action, and he must depend on speech for interpretation. As in a medieval morality play, his people are labeled and formularized, the baker is named Dai Bread, the trollop is Polly Garter. Many characters then become only undistinguished white keys upon which Thomas...
...plain truth is that Hope (even with Joan Fontaine) does need help-a good bit more than he has been getting in recent pictures from his writers and directors. Despite the occasional funny moment when he can really become a floor lamp. Hope is essentially a radio comedian, a performer who is better heard than seen...