Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy's theology is plain, pointed and graphic. Like a Biblical Baedeker, he takes his listeners strolling down Pavements of Gold, introduces them to a rippling-muscled Christ who resembles Charles Atlas with a halo, then drops them abruptly into the Lake of Fire for a sample scalding. His language is a strange, original blend of farm-boy idiom, Shakespeare, the New Testament and the newest slang. Sample Grahamism, aimed at those who protest that they were raised in good Christian homes, therefore don't need to be "converted": "Just because you were born in a garage, does...
...good as a performance in a concert hall-maybe better. Half a dozen years ago, there was hardly a platoon of them in the whole U.S. Last week in Manhattan, 15,000 of them trooped to the fourth annual hi-fi roundup, known as the Audio Fair. Partsmakers and plain fans, they took over 116 rooms of the New Yorker Hotel, set up their wares and turned on the switches...
...yellow tickets. He could only manage the red ones--for parking. It never occurred to the businessman who told us this story (an ardent opponent of "Truman corruption") that this was itself a form of corruption--to him the fixing of tickets had no moral significance at all. The plain fact is that a certain amount of corruption is fundamental to the American way of life and the American way of politics. One has only to look at England, where ticket-fixing and governmental corruption are virtually unknown, to realize this. It is foolish for a nation of ticket-fixers...
...spent the first part of the hour-long lecture justifying his subject. "You may ask," he said, "is the so-called poet a victim of galloping egocentricity or is he just plain simple-minded...
...voted to cut foreign aid by $350 million, Kennedy had just returned from a trip to Europe. Speaking of what he had seen, he said: "If Europe is to be saved, Europe must commence to make sacrifices . . . commensurate with the danger that threatens to engulf her . . . The plain and brutal fact today is that Europe is not making these sacrifices . . . her military budgets in terms of their proportion of the national income are far below those that we propose for ourselves. Her draft of manpower is less severe than what we suggest should govern us here . . . This effort is clearly...