Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some people can criticize your article on the physiology of sex. It was well written and brought to light a subject that all top many of us know so little about, scientifically or otherwise. Those who criticize your article are either guilt-ridden about their sexual feelings or just plain anti-intellectual...
...Ambassador (and soon to be torn down for an office building). By last week Haller's security clearance was in, and the White House announced his appointment. He was immediately enmeshed in the big blender of bureaucracy. The White House handout changed his first name to plain old Henry, and Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's press aide, ordered him not to talk to reporters...
...generation in which the family's genius flowered. However, his superior talents made him impatient and irascible. "He resented having been born young," Professor Kirkland says. He also resented having been born an Adams, and in his 60s he formally stated why this was so: "In plain language, I do not like my own father-a strong, not generous, kindly or sympathetic nature...
...Court's legal position in its reapportionment decisions. His "Busy Haunts and Remote Wildernesses" is valuable not so much for its profundity as for its terrific style and overwhelming argumentation. In fact, this is the first article I've ever read in a Harvard Review that is just plain fun reading, even if you aren't interested in the topic. For example: "Within the court itself, Justice Harlan looks on his colleagues' handiwork with all the enthusiasm of a nun who has caught less pious sisters smuggling men into the convent." And Frank's comment on Frankfurter's Baker...
Thomas Coates, who was elected last week as vice-chairman, said that Councilor Thomas H.D. Mahoney's move to re- consider his election was "prompted by nothing but plain, flat bigotry." Mahoney, an M.I.T. history professor, angrily dismissed Coates' charge, declaring that it was a "nasty, little innuendo." On a revote, Coates won again as vice-chairman...