Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxford don who draws most of his support from the left and was one of Hugh Gaitskell's archrivals, Labor M.P.s apparently had in mind not his ruthless opportunism but the fact that he, like Gaitskell, is a middle-class intellectual. By contrast with earthy George Brown, a plain-spoken lorry driver's son, many Laborites believe that Harold Wilson will have more appeal for middle-class voters, who have become increasingly disenchanted with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. An effective president of the Board of Trade for 3½ years in the last Labor government, Wilson...
...Arnold Arboretum, a vast Harvard-administered horticultural garden in Jamaica Plain off Route 1, may be partially destroyed if the city of Boston persists in its plans to build a 30 acre consolidated high school in the area, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...just a symposium at San Francisco's University of California Medical Center, but 1,200 students turned out for it, cramming the 500-capacity auditorium and spilling over into another building to follow the proceedings on closed-circuit television. Thousands of plain citizens watched it on educational station KQED and swamped the station with mail...
...York children are no longer interested in hot dogs, hamburgers or toasted cheese sandwiches for party fare. "Today it's the omelet period." reports Caterer Rudolph Stanish. "They've become the chic thing, either plain or a combination of bacon, caviar, mushrooms, something like that. The six-year-olds prefer tiny jelly omelets." He sighed: "And. of course, there is always some child who will request a truffle." Stanish, whose parties can handle from 60 to 150 children and can cost anywhere from $35 to $500, often provides a dance team (who twist and then teach...
...nearly half over, before the people of the U.S. recognized him as a poet, and then they learned it from the British. For those 40 years, he was an isolated man. isolated physically on a bleak farm in New-England, isolated poetically as he slowly worked out his grindstone-plain style. Yet, as it falls to few men and almost never to poets, Robert Frost lived on to enjoy the plaudits and perquisites of immortality in his own lifetime...