Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a U.S. viewpoint, only be called progress. But there remained room for much more progress. Still in Cuba were Russian nationals-and for the first time, Kennedy described them as "ground combat units." More importantly, when Kennedy had first announced his quarantine of Cuba, he made it perfectly plain that on-site inspection was the only way to make sure that Soviet missiles had really been removed. But Castro, despite Khrushchev's pledge to let U.N. inspectors into Cuba, remained obdurate. Therefore, said Kennedy at his press conference, the U.S., even while continuing negotiations toward inspection, would continue...
Recurrent illness over the last two years had made it plain that Anna Eleanor Roosevelt needed the detailed attention of a specialist in diagnosis. But she was as contemptuous of fuss and feathers in regard to her health as in other matters; she brushed aside suggestions that she subject herself to major medical procedures. Mrs. Roosevelt was unfitted by temperament to be an invalid. She liked to say: "I'm too busy to be sick...
Nearly 500 friends, followers, and just plain curious crammed into the Left Bank studio-gallery-theater of America's pioneer Beatnik Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food...
...liturgy means in essence revising the solemn, tradition-laden Mass that has stood basically unchanged for 400 years. The structure of ritual is so elaborately linked* that any change is likely to become a crucial change. If Latin were dropped, for example, it might be natural also to drop plain chant, which is awkward in most other languages. "In the last four centuries," says Jesuit Liturgist Hermann Schmidt, "the ideal has become immutability. Certainly God is immutable; but we are men, and we cannot always express ourselves the same. This is a crisis of immutability...
Robert Frost: "When you know Frost's poems you know surprisingly well what the world seemed to one man . . . to have this whole range of being treated with so much humanity and sadness and composure, with such plain truth; to see that a man can still include, connect, and make humanly understandable . . . so much-this is one of the freshest and oldest joys...