Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Democratic members. Senators Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Stuart Symington and John McClellan, resigned from the committee in a body, charging that they had been put in the "impossible position of having responsibility without . . . authority." The Senate's Democrats were backing them. The Democratic leadership made it plain that they would not be replaced until McCarthy mends his ways. The Democratic boycott would not keep the subcommittee from functioning, but might expose its conclusions to increased criticism...
...fact that most pastoral calls are unwelcome in the morning (before the house is straightened), and that in the afternoon most women are alone, tends to put the minister in a situation that is "embarrassing, even dangerous," such is the power of gossip: "Let me set it down, plain and positive: it is a dangerous practice for any minister to call on a woman alone in her home." If the minister is lucky enough to have a child below school age, this "is an efficient bodyguard...
...finer minds of the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle, addressing his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. During some 40 years of turbulent married life, Carlyle gradually diluted these honeyed words with wormwood. As Editor Trudy Bliss's generous sampling of Carlyle's domestic correspondence makes plain, he used confectionery phrases to sugarcoat endless pills packed with personal neuroses...
...with Thoreau as a stubborn searcher for truth. Beginning with his first book (The Sea and the Jungle) in 1912, a whole generation of critics gushed over his prose style, and not without reason. It was a vehicle that could take a reader anywhere and leave plain tracks in the memory for a long time to come...
Tomlinson is one of those men who were born too late. In A Mingled Yarn, a collection of 18 essays written over the last 40 years, it becomes plain that he would have been happy to run his course during the 19th century. That is only natural for a man who "was a little Londoner when Carlyle was living higher up the river, and . . . was reading Stevenson when his early tales were appearing serially." But Tomlinson's hankering for the past is not merely an exercise of simple sentiment. To be sure, there is the oldster's yearning...