Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columnist Cyrus L. Sulzberger, nephew of Times Board Chairman Arthur Hays Sulzberger, has consistently called for firmness in Viet Nam and warned against negotiating from weakness: "It takes two sides to negotiate, and what the other side makes plain is that all it wants is total victory." Doubtful of the chances of peace until the Viet Cong have suffered some military reverses, Sulzberger prophesied the collapse of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's recent mission to Viet Nam: "One purpose the Wilson peace tour can achieve when it fails-as it almost certainly will-is to make more Americans...
PRECIOUS STONES AND OTHER CRYSTALS, text by Rudolf Metz. 191 pages. Viking. $25. Dr. Metz, a mineralogist, has assembled the handsomest collection of minerals, precious, semiprecious and just plain beautiful, to be found anywhere outside a museum. The 89 flaw less color plates run the gamut from gold just as prospectors sometimes find it to the canary-yellow Tiffany diamond, 128.51 carats cut into 90 facets and worth $900,000. Dr. Metz's running comment is on the textbookish side, but no matter. With such cool splendors to survey, who wants to read...
...this film is just plain fun. Ernst Lubitsch, the man who made it, was known for the "Lubitsch touch," an adeptness at light comedy coupled with extraordinary photographic technique. His films impress one as distinctly modern, certainly not as museum pieces...
...Musical Setting of the Eucharist, performed in May at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Pianist Vince Guaraldi took Anglican plain chant as his starting point. The flowing Gregorian tunes were chanted by a 68-member chorus while Guaraldi improvised back of it with his trio, shifting the mood with the spirit of the prayer. "Lord, Have Mercy" is crisp and plaintive, with a syncopated Latin rhythm; the Communion anthem is a waltzlike blues with a flowing melodic line. The "Theme for Grace" at the Offertory, with a chorus crooning the syllables of "hallelujah," reminded some listeners of mood-setting...
...bopping" on the stage of the Brooklyn Fox. Gary Lewis and the Playboys blowing up a squall on the beach at California's Abalone Cove. The continuity was Murray frugging from one surf-or cityside location to the next or jumping into Michigan's River Rouge or plain flipping his trademarked straw...