Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said he: "The lobbies, halls and galleries of the legislature are jammed with liquor lobbyists presenting their special interests. The issues before the legislature are plain: shall the special interests of the few prevail over those of all the people? Shall the seedbeds of corruption remain or be uprooted? Shall public confidence in the greatness and integrity of New York State government be preserved? The people are watching...
...Elephants"-or the Million Irrelevants, as Americans on the scene put it-lies bloodied and paralyzed by a Geneva neutralist agreement that has resulted only in chaos. The pro-Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralist-rightist armies fire dutifully at each other amid the gigantic burial urns on the Plain of Jars, usually trying not to hit each other but still taking a daily toll of human life. Recently, gunfire erupted one night in the backwater capital of Vientiane (two stop lights, one sidewalk). It was an eclipse of the moon, and to the natives that meant but one thing...
...Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that his government's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) could never brook an apertura a Franco...
Even after he succeeded Johnson as majority leader, Mansfield had hankerings to be just a plain Senator. He works hard at keeping his seat. He is in his office by 7 most mornings to catch the first mail delivery from Montana, makes a point of seeing as many Montanans visiting Washington as possible. While he paints in broad, if sometimes fuzzy strokes as a foreign affairs expert, his domestic politics are a masterpiece of minutiae-the sort of caring-for-constituents stuff that ensures reelection. "If I forget Montana, they're going to forget me," he says. "I know...
...recent trend to produce Shakespearian plays on a very plain set and in modern dress, Seltzer said, "is the understandable last effort on the part of a director who does not understand the plot...