Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was, for example, a full afternoon devoted to hearing the representatives of civil rights organizations. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, a Democrat, praised Republicans in Congress for their part in passage of the Civil Rights Act, but, in a plain dig at Goldwater, deplored the doubts about the measure's constitutionality as expressed "by aspirants to public office...
...television news coverage as if the coverage itself were news. Jack Gould, the New York Times's TV critic, systematically lumps TV newscasts in with Dr. Kildare, and gives both the same sort of critical going-over. After last month's conference of state governors in Cleveland, Plain Dealer TV Columnist Bert...
Reesing praised the city's radio and TV stations for "an exemplary piece of work." But the Plain Dealer had noth ing to say, one way or another, about the performance of its own reporters -or, for that matter, of those on Cleveland's other daily, the Press...
...Vesper gave credit where it was due, so did Harvard. "They were just too good for us. Powerful, big, strong and plain good--an outstanding crew in every respect," was Crimson coach Harry Parker's comment. The dejected Harvard oarsmen agreed...
...poster artists were early admen. Toulouse-Lautrec glorified the bicycle as well as the poules of Montmartre. Lesser artists painted ads for big new department stores with "fixed prices indicated in plain figures" or automatic baby bottles, "the only one with a pump imitating the breast...