Word: plain
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...staggering greed" among State and Boston officials. With tongue in cheek, he praised the "ingenuity" of John J. McGrath a former city auctioneer. According to Gleason McGrath until a few weeks ago made a habit of selling city-owned real estate to himself. If not illegal, this was "a plain conflict of interest," asserted Gleason...
Other participants in the panel were Noil Staebler, candidate for Congress-man-at-large in Michigan, and Murray Seegar of the Cleveland plain Dealer, a Nieman fellow. Staebler asserted that when money replaces responsibility as the object of State officials' efforts, the result is "a kind of barroom government...
Four experts on State affairs will discuss "The Mess in State Politics: What Can Be Done About It?" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Winthrop dining hall. Frank B. Freidel, professor of History, will moderate a panel including Murray Seegar, Nieman Fellow from the Cleveland Plain Dealer; Herbert Gleason, Boston attorney; and Neil Staebler, former State Democratic chairman of Michigan...
...very end of his life, Yeats returned to the theatre. He was still haunted by a desire to restore singing and dance as the poet's arts, and he wrote a number of experimental plays in which the plain style and plain fables of his poctic maturity were worked into music and motion. In the best of these stylized dramas, he achieved a formal perfection and a dramatic force that make plays constructed only of words seem wooden and drab by comparison...
...strike (TIME, Jan. 26), production of the 1962 models has already surpassed Studebaker's entire 1961 output. But for Egbert this was only the barest beginning; he long ago decided that to win a real new lease on life Studebaker must overcome its total identification with the plain-feathered Lark by bringing out an entirely new and daring...