Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuban invasion fell apart, the sympathy and understanding gave way to dismay and plain disgust. "Bad show," said the London Daily Mail-"a shocking blow to American prestige." British cartoonists smirked in print. Said a saddened government official in Bogotá: "The United States should not have allowed the invasion to start unless the chances of success were good." And Masaji Inoue, 31, a Tokyo office worker, mirrored the feeling of much of the free world: "America seems to have messed things up again...
President Kennedy intends to make plain his dislike of certain conservative groups. He has declined an invitation to address the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because he believes it is one of the most potent forces lobbying against his program. Also, for the first time since 1890, the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution was rebuffed when it requested a special, "members only" tour through the White House...
...Francisco's hungry i last week Sisters Mary and Helen Grandison and Cousin Dottie Webster, hips swaying under plain blue dresses, had every bottle on the bar rattling as they belted out old gospel favorites with poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock...
...similarly uncharacteristic canvas is a pastoral landscape by Van Gogh-the placid Plain at Auvers. It is a subtle study of pale blues and greens in which plowed fields and few trees lie under a sky that hardly swirls as much as the one in Francesco Guardi's gently shaded Venetian Scene...
...Katzander thinks that buyers should also know such things as how to read an art catalogue. In one London auction house, if a painting is listed as "by John Constable, R.A.," it means that the house experts are confident of its authenticity. As confidence wanes, the listing changes-to plain "John Constable,'' then to "J. Constable." and finally to an abrupt "Constable...