Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plain Fury. Her career in contemporary sounds began in 1958 with a Rome performance of John Cage's Aria with Fontana Mix, in which phrases in English, French, Italian, Armenian and Russian were scattered all over the scale, with marginal indications that they be sung in a "baby or Marilyn Monroe voice," a "Marlene Dietrich foggy voice," or a jazz singer's voice. There were also-as there are in much of the music she sings-passages calling for whatever noises she cared to make -a dog's bark, a grunt, a sigh. The audience responded with...
...poor. Let us end once and for all the impression of a bishop-prince, residing in a palace, isolated from his clergy." At the closing Mass of the council, Camara suggested, the bishops should pile their gold and silver pectoral crosses at the feet of the Pope and receive plain wooden ones from him in exchange. The archbishop may get at least part of his wish: the schema on the clergy has a chapter dealing with the right use of churchly goods...
...spokesman for the Harvard Athletic Department yesterday called charges by Georgia Tech's coach Bobby Dodd that Harvard spends over $1 million annually on football "just plain wrong...
...appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases of just plain incompetent or careless business practices...
...Just Plain Fun. Filene's shoppers include not only ordinary Bostonians-if there is such a thing-but the likes of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Harvard President Nathan Pusey and Boston's Brahmins and businessmen; in their school days, Joseph Kennedy's children shopped there. Some New York and Philadelphia matrons wait until they hear that their favorite local store has sold some stock to Filene's, travel to Boston to buy the goods at half or a third of the price. Many people drop by just for the fun of watching-and they find plenty...