Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five weeks ago withdrew his request that Congress enact legislation establishing the department, ordered its creation under his reorganization powers. Thus, if either the House or the Senate did not veto the plan within 60 days, the Department of Urban Affairs would automatically achieve status. Kennedy made it perfectly plain that if Congress did turn down the plan, he would blame Republicans for being 1) unwilling to help the nation's cities, and 2) anti-Negro. And Weaver himself rubbed in the point. Said he on television: "There is a large segment of the population which will interpret...
...moved into the office left vacant last month by the death of J. Spencer Love, Burlington Industries' candid new President Charles F. Myers, 50, made it plain that the era of one-man rule had ended for the world's largest textile empire (1961 sales: $866 million). Says Myers in a rich Charleston accent: "No one will take the load that Mr. Love took. Management from now on will be a team operation." Lured away from a banking career during a series of tennis games with Love 15 years ago. Myers started off at Burlington as a financial...
...LASL News, house organ of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, describes it in somewhat unscientific terms: "It sort of takes a guy by surprise. You hear a kind of crunching sound and you look out of the window. Half an hour ago when the bomb went off, it was plain old flat, sandy Yucca Flats. All of a sudden it's a hole big enough to float a small fleet if you had any water...
Third, the O.A.S. opposes liberation on behalf of the white settlers in Algeria, for fear that they will be wiped out by the armies of the F.L.N. The plain physical dread of extermination accounts for the desperation of their violence: no explanation of their ideas should obscure that fact. They would trust no guarantees that might be incorporated into a cease-fire, so the war must...
...fate will be forever bound up with god, your soul forever filled with god." The sibyl's prophecy is fulfilled in Lagerkvist's new book, in which god finally allows Ahasuerus to die. Like Lagerkvist's other novels, this is written in the prose of parables, plain and simple, pared to the essential scene and angle like a painting by Giotto, held like a Giotto to a single mood of grave wonder. And like his other novels, its meanings are dark and paradoxical and hard to come...