Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while his virtues remain his own, is perhaps most vulnerable of all to the parodist's pic. Under the muscular stoicism and the man-of-the-world expertise, there is a vein of provincial naivete, and the celebrated bare style is really an elaborate piece of purl and plain knitting, learned in part from that fancy needlework artist, Gertrude Stein. Far from being economical, it is in fact more prolix than, say, Thomas Mann's high mandarin, a fact proved some years ago by parodists in the New Statesman and Nation, who vainly attempted to translate a passage...
...full measure of Russia's ambitions for Cuba was made plain last week in its choice of an ambassador for Havana, Sergei Kudriavtsev. The name should be familiar. Kudriavtsev was, in the findings of a Canadian royal commission, the real head of the Canadian spy ring exposed by the defecting Russian cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko in 1945. The Russians then brazenly assigned him to the U.N. as adviser to the Soviet delegation in 1947, but the appointment stirred such bad publicity that he was recalled inside four months. Russia's man in Havana is obviously expected to head...
Attempted Murder. U.S. policy was to aim for eventual collective action by the 21-member Organization of American States. Castro had plainly violated the Caracas Declaration of 1954 barring Communist domination of any hemisphere nation. But Latin American politicos tacitly made two demands in return for their support. One was that the U.S. should make no unilateral move against Castro. The other was that the U.S. must support Latino efforts to get rid of dictatorship and backwardness throughout the hemisphere. Last week, when it became plain that Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic was back of the recent...
Palmer explained that he does not accuse Sir Arthur of deliberate misrepresentation, only of the self-deception of old age. But he still insists that the evidence of Duncan Mackenzie's daybook is plain for all to see. It shows, he says, that the Cretans of 1400 B.C. must have got their culture from the Greek mainland. That culture did not die, as Sir Arthur claimed, when the mainlanders came to Crete...
...imagination than to his knowledge of life as it is normally lived, even under the incubating Mediterranean sun. It has taken two decades to bear out T. S. Eliot's belief, formed in 1938, that young Durrell was a white hope of English prose. What is just as plain, now that his Collected Poems are published, is that Durrell is one of the few first-rate poets presently writing in English...