Word: plain
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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...
Security Scares. But by midweek the fatigue in Johnson's face was plain to see. His fingers had become bloodied and were bandaged from shaking so many hands. He had also gone through some security scares. In Phoenix, one young man had been arrested when police found him carrying a loaded .22-cal. revolver under his coat. Another young punk bashed the President with a Goldwater sign. The sign creased Lyndon's hat; the President thought it was an accident, but others were not so sure, and the fellow was arrested...
...blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness, which unctuously adds its little offering to the spongecake at a kaffeeklatsch, is the plain and simple fact that a man has given himself completely to something he finds worth living...
...language effortlessly, whether praising the bambinos of a young immigrant mother or joking lustily with a Sicilian metal-worker. This week, as he forayed the factory districts of Lawrence and Lowell, he spouted "cara mia's" with increasing frequency, erasing the forbidding image of Republicanism and becoming just plain "John...
Whatever the answers, the law in question was duly invoked last week in behalf of two more accused Soviet spies facing trial in Newark-and the Government duly cooperated. Fact is, the law is hardly a new discovery. Last revised in 1958, it is plain as day in the U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 3432, which reads: "A person charged with treason or other capital offense shall at least three entire days before commencement of trial be furnished with a copy of the indictment and a list of the veniremen, and of the witnesses to be produced on the trial...