Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gita prescribes three paths for the soul's union with God: karma-yoga, the way of action, Jnana-yoga, the way of knowledge, and bhakti-yoga, the way of love. The poem is set in the frame of bloody battle, a great battle on the plain of Kurukshetra. The hero, Arjuna, is downcast because he must fight against men who, he suspects, are his brothers, even though they are foes, and the god Krishna givers Arjuna advice. Krishna persuades Arjuna that it is permissible to fight, indeed, that he must fight, so long as the struggle serves no selfish...
...coke machine may soon be installed to draw hot-weather customers and keep up the present average of about 100 visitors a day. Stastney also intends to increase the comfort of the room, which is now furnished with plain wooden chairs and tables...
Uniformed police cleared the way for ticketholders, and plain-clothes men kept their eyes peeled, but by concert time the big hall had filled up quietly to its 2,700 capacity. With the hall's doors closed against sounds of street rumpus, burly, 57-year-old Walter Gieseking strode onstage. The crowd let out an encouraging whoop, clapped for half a minute. A few listeners rose to show their respect...
...Manzoni is Italy's Hugo, Verga is its Flaubert, and its Zola too. Now the finest of Verga's novels, I Malavoglia, is introduced to U.S. readers as The House by the Medlar Tree. The Malavoglia are a family of boatmen. Verga's is the plain tale of their destruction by fate...
Cinqué, by plain force of character, took command of the captives and organized a mutiny. He found machetes stowed in the hold, and with them one hot night the slaves, having ripped out their shackle bolts, cut the captain and his half-breed son to pieces. The Spanish crew ducked overside into the dinghy, and were gone. The slaves were masters of the ship...