Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero is a man in search of a new life amid the rubble of a wrecked marriage. His conclusion is disappointingly flat ("I am what I am"), but in the process of reaching it, Herzog-Bellow ranges wittily, learnedly and perceptively over nearly all the dilemmas -major, minor and plain absurd - of 20th century man in a virtuoso display that is a constant delight...
Conceal the Chorus. Behind these statistics, other patterns have taken shape. The illusion of neutrality, for instance, was only that, since nearly all of the fence-sitting papers have made plain which way they lean. And the unprecedented volume of Johnson endorsements could not conceal the fact that the chorus of approval fell noticeably short of enthusiasm...
...bottom of the pit, a hundred feet down, stands a house. "You can spend the night there," the stranger says. Hand over hand the man descends a rope ladder. In the house he finds a peasant woman who gives him plain food to eat and a plain mat to sleep on. In the morning he rises early to be on his way, but when he looks for the ladder it is gone. "Please don't blame me," the woman says gently. "Remember, you came here of your own accord." He stares at her, incredulous. "Are you trying to tell...
...believer in God who makes his credo perfectly plain in the course of the book, Author Willey is not in complete sympathy with these earnest skeptics. He gives them their due in a few felicitous phrases without becoming their advocate...
...anti-Italian; the only thing he claims to question is Kennedy's judgment (and there're his qualifications). Similarly, Keating denies he is actively seeing the backing of any voting bloc and criticizes his opponent for appealing to such groups; yet Keating's bid for bloc support is as plain as the title of one of his campaign throwaways: "Why is Nasser Working to Defeat Keating...