Word: plain
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DEFENSE Retreat from Pessimism "The plain fact is," growled Texas Democrat George H. Mahon, as his House subcommittee on defense appropriations began emergency hearings last week on the status of U.S. missile programs, "that the Administration has not yet made the fundamental decisions that must be made. The Administration has not reacted as boldly as it should." One day later, after a parade of Pentagon experts led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had spelled out missile progress to the subcommittee in crisp, uncensored terms, George Mahon emerged from the hearing room with a different story. Said he:"It is obvious...
Most of Verlaine's greatest poems (La Bonne Chanson, Sagesse, Romances sans paroles) express a medley of sensuality, longing and faith. Verlaine learned a "new" French-strong, vigorous and plain. He and Rimbaud broke down "the barrier between poet and reader by using French as it was then spoken"-not as courtiers of the past had spoken it. They changed the monotonous, end-of-line rhyme, throwing the stress not where elegance demanded it, but "where the sense lay." Where Verlaine used the old end rhyme, he made it run rather than halt-and how hauntingly and simply...
...feel that this plain is exactly the way the Ford money should be used," Mavrinac said, "because it will be possible for House undergraduate and tutorial groups to obtain noted visitors, and will provide assistance for students interested in research...
...bitterest French complaint was that the United States and Britain had acted without consulting France. But the plain fact was that for two months the U.S. had been warning France that something would have to be done about arms for Tunisia...
...FERTILE PLAIN, by Esfher Sola-man (344 pp.; Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), deals with Russian Jews, more urbane, polished and aware than Singer's woebegone Galizianer. Little Rissia grows up in Vladimirsk, a fictional town near Kiev, in the early years of the 20th century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...