Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become not only one of Harvard's most thorough innovators but one of its great revolutionaries as well. Leighton has done so much for the University that it is easy to understand what one of his former freshmen meant when he said. "To us, he was just plain Harvard...
According to a member of the class of 1937, "we always felt particularly close to him with a sincere camaraderie. To us, he was just plain Harvard...
...Americans in New Delhi last week were irritated by evidence that the Indian government still prefers equivocation to the plain truth. Official requests went out to the Indian press not to print photos showing the arrival of U.S. arms, and the twelve U.S. Air Force transport planes sent by Washington to ferry Indian troops were made to sound like leased aircraft flown by mercenaries. The crowds know better. A current slogan is a revision of the earlier cry for brotherhood with China: "Americans bhai bhai; Chini hai hail" (Americans are our brothers; death to the Chinese...
...likely to bring a shudder from even the kindliest clergyman when used as a title in direct address. "Calling a minister 'reverend,'" says the Right Rev. John Boyd Bentley of the Protestant Episcopal National Council, "is like meeting Churchill and saying, 'Good morning, honorable.' " The plain-talking Presbyterians of New Mexico's Rio Grande Presbytery (33 congregations from Tucumcari to Las Cruces) recently resolved "that all members, friends and enemies of the Presbytery of the Rio Grande are hereby dissuaded and/or discouraged from using 'reverend' henceforth as a form of address to anyone...
...Fail-Safe System. Stouffer's recipe for success is to concentrate on plain dishes prepared the way Mom used to make them, and to have only women do the cooking. Five-foot five-inch Vernon Stouffer, 61, who is married and the father of three, is convinced that "women know food better than men. They like to fuss with foods-they care more." Stouffer's food is unlikely to send a gourmet into raptures, or to show much evidence of fuss, but it is inevitably eatable, usually tasty, always well-served, and priced moderately. The economy luncheon special...