Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step of an ambitious new building program, the Smithsonian's vast Museum of History and Technology last month moved from cramped, cluttered quarters into a $36 million pink Tennessee marble palace that squats with blank-walled solidity on Constitution Avenue. At the same time, the Institution got a plain-talking new boss, S. Dillon Ripley II, 50, who has set out to erase the impression, "held by educators and laymen alike, that anyone associated with a museum is some sort of stuffed specimen...
...jetliner touched down at New York's Kennedy International Airport, and the whole place went up for grabs. Some 2,000 hooky-playing, caterwauling teen-agers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, eleven crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop waiters, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good pressagent," chirped Ringo. (They have 17.) And how about the Detroit movement...
...most of the time is slowly being gathered by the young "behavioral sciences" -anthropology, psychology, sociology and related fields. Unhappily, much of the evidence is shrouded in jargon. Happily, nonscholars may turn this week to Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings (Harcourt, Brace & World; $11), the first plain-English compendium of behavioral science's best-tested propositions...
...enemies of sleep have changed more in kind than in quantity, it still seems fairly certain that modern man sleeps less than his ancestors did. Some reasons are clear: generations ago, men did a great deal more physical work; they got plain tired, or downright bone-weary. And before Mr. Edison's electric bulb turned night into a gaudy imitation of day, it was hard on the eyes to read, write or sew after dark...
Sunday scores on style. Director Peter Tewksbury has caught Manhattan in a mood of after-the-rain freshness -and the gags are all neatly paced and frequently funny. Even the obligatory we-were-just-drying-off-in-bath-robes scene squeaks by-probably because Jane, in a plain blue wrapper, looks so honey-hued and healthy that her most smoldering invitation somehow suggests that all she really has in mind is tennis...