Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Germany surrendered, and has thus spent his entire maturity on this side of the Hitlerian watershed. This unusual book suggests that most British intellectuals of his generation have settled into the admirable pattern of cultivated men of good will. Not for Wain the grandeurs, miseries and plain fuss of ideological commitments that vexed the '30s. If there is one thing that makes him angry, it is to be mistaken for an Angry Young Man through recurrent journalistic confusion with John (Room at the Top) Braine, one of a group of dissidents who are sore at the English Establishment...
...suggested that Wynne give the "chocolates" to her children. On his flights out of Moscow, Wynne carried book-size packages of secrets wrapped in plain brown paper. Penkovsky said that when he did not have Wynne around to act as courier, he used his code name, "Young," and dealt directly with U.S. and British embassy employees through an elaborate set of signals. It all worked fine until last fall when the Soviet police swooped down on Penkovsky, extracting the confession that implicated Wynne. A few days later, Russia's agents located Wynne in Budapest and hustled him back...
...letters formed an elegant chronicle of hope and hardship, ambition and anguish, written by a plain man who looked only up. In the moonlight, Jim Whittaker wrote to his mother, "this is the most beautiful mountain in the world." "Onward and upward," he wrote to his brother, despite his sorrow at the death of a fellow climber. "I've been an individual enough of my life," he wrote to his wife, Blanche. "The important thing is that someone makes it. I'll be happy to go as high as I can or as high as I am permitted...
...Darkling Plain. Arnold began, almost a century before Sartre, as something very like a modern existentialist. "Let us be true to one another.'' he wrote in Dover Beach, for the world Hath really neither joy, nor love nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain ; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night...
...downcast by one outwardly insignificant philological decline. Arnold's favorite word, "disinterested," which epitomized precisely the state of objective fair-mindedness he sought, has disappeared-in the U.S. at least. A partisan-minded culture, with very little use for objectivity, has let it be ground down to just plain "uninterested...