Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope is to open the range of the senses To beyond the removals that thought makes. To the whole horizon, to the vastness of sunlight and circularity. I want a horizon centered, I want to stand, on a circular threshing floor, in a Peloponnesian plain. And deliver my senses there, for a permanent moment, to kind wind...
...Apollo disaster in January plunged the U.S. space program into an agonizing interregnum of introspection and doubt. Last week the nation's space leaders made it plain that the time has come to focus once more on the moon. America's hopes of a lunar landing by 1970 can still be realized, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Chief James E. Webb told Congress, barring any recurrence of major technical problems...
...moment, none of the plans seems likely to be put to imminent use. Souvanna Phouma has made it plain that he wants no enlargement of the war in Laos beyond its present scale, fearing that the North Vietnamese would then attack non-Communist portions of Laos in earnest. Moreover, the mountainous terrain in Laos is far less favorable than that of South Viet Nam for massive use of U.S. troops. The U.S. command in Saigon feels that the large number of men required for a barrier can be better used to hit the enemy when he enters South Viet...
...could also be that by the time the 11 o'clock news has rolled by, audiences are ready to put their minds up in curlers and just plain relax. They have followed the puerile plot lines of the regular adventure and comedy programs only to find themselves despairing once again in the land of déjà vu. "In all these series," says Johnny Carson, "the characters are predictable, the dialogue is predictable, the format is predictable. The audience is interested in something where they don't know what's going to happen next...
Beyond ability, which Proud Clarion proved he has, a horse needs a lot of plain racing luck to weave his way around a field and come from behind. Luck was with him in Kentucky, as it may or may not be tomorrow at Pimlico. But a horse out in front is a horse out of trouble, if he can manage to stay there. I think Barbs Delight...