Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkling plain...
...hard to say which were more successful. Though there were only a few oil portraits in the show (Cox has done such celebrities as Harvard President James B. Conant, Judge Learned Hand, Dean Acheson), it was plain that he is no mere bread & butter portraitist. The pictures had a carefree, almost dashed-off look: lots of lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added...
...cooed Ehrenburg, suppressing the other Russian line about the germ-spreading American cannibals (TIME, June 30). "We respect their genius, their achievements in science, their inventiveness, their industry." As for the "happy-go-lucky American character," Ehrenburg admitted that it does have a "certain charm." "It is time the plain American should understand that Russians are not massing to deprive him of his little Ford, that the Chinese have no intention of meddling with his television programs, that Koreans do not lust after Mr. Smith's refrigerator...
...their own with laughter and tears, street parades, community sings and free candy for the kids. In the state of Uttar Pradesh it was Deliverance Day, the day that marked the end of zamindari, a system of tax collecting which has held most of India's plain people in thrall since the Middle Ages...
...different story. They were ardent young musical modernists in those days, and they founded an organization for mutual support: the International Society for Contemporary Music. The charter promised that the I.S.C.M. would "protect and encourage especially those [musical] tendencies that are experimental and difficult to approach." In plain language, the society would fight to get its members' music performed...