Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes, James Hood and Vivian Malone, were scheduled to enroll in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa last June. For months prior to that, University President Frank Rose had painstakingly planned to comply with the court order in a way that would avoid violence. Rose made it perfectly plain that he did not want Wallace butting...
Mainbocher dresses some of the most glamorous properties on Broadway, as well as some of the most sedulously anonymous rich. His skill with color, plain lines and expert engineering takes especially kindly to the middle-aged figure. Many women who wear his clothes as never see him, but such favored clients as "Babs" Paley and "Ceezee" Guest can sometimes prevail on him to discuss their wardrobes over lunch at Le Pavillion or the Colony. "I think I've been a reassuring influence in fashion," he says. "I don't want my clothes to make a woman look desperate...
...with the spiritual traditions of the past, many Americans search for comfort in the face of death by conspiring with the technicians and gimmick merchants to pretend that it hasn't really happened. This is their right. But it is wrong that anyone who wants to buy a plain wood coffin no matter what kind of car he drives should feel that it is disrespectful of the dead...
Admitting that "we are all a little deaf and dumb," Paul said: "Let us ex plain the points of doctrine that are still the object of controversy. We do not wish either to absorb or to humiliate all this great flowering of the Oriental churches, but yes, we do desire that this flowering be regrafted onto the one tree of the one church of Christ...
...about America. So much contact with Roman antiquities has convinced Herbert Kubly that America is also ripe for a fall. The yahoos have taken over, free speech is stifled, the kids are sex-mad. It is an "informers' land," says one character who is supposed to speak the plain, unvarnished truth. "We're a species of children, rather nasty children, tattling on one another, playing with our toys of microphones and wire taps...