Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generally fair, but slightly biased (the first two in the Democratic direction, the rest in the Republican): Milwaukee Journal (bias mainly in front-page cartoons); St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Chicago Sun-Times; Kansas City Star; Cleveland Plain Dealer; New York Herald Tribune; Portland Oregonian; Christian Science Monitor...
Last week, 16 years after his death, tribute was being paid to Painter Delaunay. Paris' National Museum of Modern Art was in the midst of a major, summer-long retrospective show of almost 200 of his oils, watercolors, drawings, lithographs. It was plain that Delaunay never realized his youthful ambition of reaching Picasso's heights, but equally plain that he had said enough to make a historical contribution to modern...
...dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different." i.e., to be what U.S. tradition calls "individualistic" or nonconformist, what orthodoxy dubs heretical, what psychiatry calls neurotic, what some men in the street call plain cracked. Author Wallace agrees with Mill that "eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded," and then with tender gaiety proceeds to profile a handful of the most eccentric eccentrics...
...those who can take that grisly moment in stride, Fires on the Plain will not seem unbearable; it is a painful book to read, but rewardingly so. Unlike most of the Japanese novels that have reached the U.S. during the past few years, this one has neither the perfumed style nor the Oriental passivity and obliqueness that have made the others too exotic for Western tastes. Its hero is an infantry soldier at the end of whatever rope the author may choose to pull. He is the universal G.I. in whatever uniform comes to hand. But since he is Japanese...
...Fires on the Plain, Japanese Author Shohei Ooka has written what critics in his native land think is their first well-written book about the war. The novel has sold 100,000 copies, and it is not hard to see why. In translation it has moments of obscurity, but it still conveys powerfully the gradual crackup of a war-shattered man who, in his last extremity, can relate himself neither to humanity...