Word: plain
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Harkins got into the Army by accident. Born in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston in 1904, he was the second of five children of Edward Harkins. a reporter and drama critic on Boston newspapers for 50 years. The elder Harkins, who is now 90, had his own ideas of what was culturally best for his three sons, and for Boston. Paul's brother, Philip, now a novelist in California, remembers grimly that "every Friday afternoon he made all of us go to the Boston Symphony, where we had to sit without moving or wriggling on the hardest wooden...
...farsighted Monnet, 73. gazed even beyond the day when continental Europe and Britain will merge, predicted that European unity "will play a vital part in creating conditions leading to real peace between East and West." Said Monnet: "When the partnership of America and a united Europe makes it plain to all that the West may change from within but that others cannot change it by outside pressures, the conditions will exist for a lasting settlement between the Soviet Union and the West. I don't think we shall have to wait long for this change...
...when he lost his leg, his five years in Dachau, which tested the strength of his political convictions, and his efforts since that time to maintain the integrity and security of his country." The visitor was Alfons Gorbach, 63, Chancellor of Austria, and his mission in Washington was plain: to get U.S. backing for Austria's application for associate membership in the Common Market...
Alas, poor A.D.A. As the faithful gathered in Washington last week for the organization's 15th anniversary convention, it was plain that both kinds of pleasure have largely eluded them. They don't feel like martyrs, and they certainly don't have an A.D.A.-type President...
...from a remark by Poet Paul Valery. who said he had never written a novel because he could not bear to set down the banal first words, "The Marquise went out at five." The book is to be taken as an answer to Valery's implied charge that plain statement of fact is dull. "A pure exercise in virtuosity, you might say at first glance," says Mauriac. "Yet never gratuitous. But how to exhaust the gifts of reality?" Mauriac, who explains that he prefers literal exactitude to literature because he has "purified [his writing] of the last traces...