Word: plain
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...PEOPLE!, an organization that claims membership in 1,700 communities in all 50 states, is run out of a plain, three-room Chicago office by Harry Ev-eryingham, 53, a former radio writer and adman who formed the organization seven years ago. Everyingham believes that the Communist takeover in the U.S. is well along, and that "there are many who are working with the Communists to accomplish this." The titular president of his organization is Tulsa Evangelist Billy Hargis, 36, whose material formed the base for an Air Force manual attacking the Protestant clergy last year. Hargis is convinced that...
...antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been clear for some time that the Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking nearly wrecked China's agriculture-without accomplishing its industrial goals, either. At present, Li Fu-chun is masterminding a gigantic turnabout, trying to relax some of the inhuman pressures on China's peasants in order to maintain at least subsistence food production...
Made by Dusan Vukotic, head of a film company in Zagreb that is state-financed but remarkably free of state control, the film uses no dialogue (just a light musical score) and begins with an unpromising situation: its hero, a plain-looking fellow, parks his automobile at a lakeside beach, unpacks a plastic beach mattress and fills it, using a hand pump...
Walpole's letters are as steeped in temperament as they are crammed with information: from an enjoyable ambivalence of attitude, Walpole must mock what he delighted in, satirize what he succumbed to, and make plain that in chronicling society, a monocle is no mere class ornament but an actual sharpener of sight...
...city's character had suddenly slipped away. And after days of wondering and speculating, most of them decided that it was the simplicity of the man that had been so important in his 18 years as Speaker, and that now was lost. He was old-fashioned; he was plain; he was direct...