Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets and lights of Mahala Woolridge, plain and reserved, are unobtrusively fine. And realizing the financial problems of the non-profit Theatre Company of Boston, one can sympathetically accept the limitations of Mary Shepley's monotonously simple, cheezy costumes. It's a bit harder, however, to dismiss some lousy makeup work, most apparent when Karlen enters looking more like a trick-or-treater than a battered Caligula...
Much of it was pure corn, or just plain tasteless-as in Los Angeles, when he referred to "the man who watches over us in heaven this afternoon, John Fitzgerald Kennedy." At one point, he had talked so long that Lady Bird sent a note to the podium telling him it was time to stop. In Pittsburgh, people in the back rows began sneaking out halfway through his address. In Milwaukee, Lyndon missed his lunch, made up for it by stopping at William Balsmider's grocery and asking for "a little hunk of baloney" and half a dozen peppermint...
...Washington flew Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, to explore Britain's prized "special relationship" with the U.S. From two breezy days of conversation, it was plain that on most major issues Britain still sees eye to eye with the U.S. (see THE NATION). There are obvious areas of disagreement as well; the most imminent is Labor's longtime advocacy of a U.N. seat for Peking. While the Tories also favored Red China's admission, said Gordon Walker, "they didn't push hard. The Labor government is an honorable government; we will push...
Reporters and columnists alike might well have been making amends for earlier sins of excess, for the extra emotion that once showed so strongly in story after anti-Goldwater story. Or perhaps the press was just plain bored by a dull campaign, had lost interest in interpreting it. Newsmen traveling with both Johnson and Goldwater may have decided that there was no longer any doubt at all about who was going to be the winner, that further displays of partisanship on their part were unnecessary and redundant...
...faculty-student meetings so tumultuously democratic, says President John W. Atherton, "that the only way I can restrain myself from yelling is to walk out with great dignity." Destruction of Innocence. Endowed by Orange Grower Russell K. Pitzer with a $1.2 million trust, the school nestles on a plain beneath the rugged San Gabriel Mountains 35 miles from Los Angeles. Dedicated this week, Pitzer is the sixth sibling in the distinguished cooperative family of Claremont Colleges* and the first independent U.S. college for women since Bennington was founded...