Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in 1958, New York's Commercial Solvents Corp. obviously thought it would get even more solvent by placing faith and credit in Billie Sol Estes. a rising young Pecos, Tex., wheeler-dealer. But by last week it was plain that doing business with Billie Sol was Commercial Solvents' worst mistake in a remarkable record of good, bad and indifferent commercial guesses...
...fourth R-Rafferty.'' To Cure Slobbism. Candidate Rafferty's personal formula for curing "slobbism" and the loss of U.S. scientific leadership to "a race of lash-driven atheistic peasants" covered a wide spectrum. He would eliminate fuzzily named "social studies" or "language arts" courses and reinstate plain names, such as history, geography and English. He proposed courses on Communism and free enterprise, and reinstatement of the singing of Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (which he charged was dropped by antimilitarists who objected to schoolchildren singing "The army and navy forever Three cheers for the red, white...
...around him. This is not simple idealism. An enigma remains. And that is the necessary riddle of each man's mind, the confusion of his words, the haze of his vision. In a late period, when Stevens abandoned the luxurious language of his early work for the "grandly plain" style he sought to teach by, Stevens wrote...
...Plain Jewel Casket. Placed almost directly in the center of bustling, industrial Coventry, the new cathedral makes no attempt at a dramatic façade. Its massive pink brick walls form a squat, solid fortress; its only spire is a relatively small, openwork metal fleche, topped by a painfully distorted cross (the building's detractors call it Radio Coventry). The long, saw-toothed east wall that runs along Coventry's crowded Priory Street is undecorated except for Sir Jacob Epstein's imposing four-ton figure of St. Michael staring down in triumph and compassion at the chained...
...intricately designed marble mosaic by Sweden's Einar Forseth and a ceiling arched to the shape of a Crusader's tent. To Spence, it is the heart of the cathedral's theme of unity. In another corner, the Chapel of Christ the Servant looks out through plain windows on the reality of grimy Coventry below, attempting to project the cathedral into Coventry's workaday world. Near by, the Chapel of Geth-semane-fenced off by a wrought-iron grille designed by Spence in the shape of a crown of thorns-is a tiny alcove for private...