Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, the strife in Selma and other trouble spots would not be settled overnight. But President Johnson's strong yet measured words made it perfectly plain that the day was not far off when all American citizens would be equal in the polling place...
...French government has finally got through to Girodias. "The astonishing truth is," he says, "that moral and artistic freedom have now become a reality in Britain and the U.S., whereas the same concepts are being denied, denigrated and officially ostracized in France." So Girodias is planning to pack his plain wrappers and open an Olympia office in Manhattan, where, he asserts, "It will only take five or ten years for censorship to disappear completely in America...
...thinking is very much his own. "You cain't roller-skate in a buffalo herd," suggests his favorite song, "but you can be happy if you've a mind to." In a twangy baritone that is happy scatting, whoop-whooping, country yodeling or just plain singing, he has recorded 25 songs on two LPs, all but one of them his own. But somehow his name is not widely known. It is probably because he does not impose himself, any more than he imposes his lyrics...
Some of Scotland's distillers com plain that the severe scarcity will force them to close down for several months this summer. Fortunately, the consumer will not taste the difference for quite a while. There are now 450 million gallons being aged in Scotland-a four-year supply...
...loom large. Actress Page, who can make a wallflower look like a man-eating plant, strives to read depth and pathos into a role that cracks under the strain, for Scenarist Tad Mosel's out-of-towners can only be taken lightly. They are stereotypes swathed in homespun, plain folks played for hicks...