Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debt to big contributors before the major campaign begins. It fails to prohibit the parties from going right ahead and soliciting private contributions to lavish on top of the public funds. And it offers no alternative financing plan in the event that sufficient taxpayers fail by intent or plain indifference to approve the tax diversion on their income tax forms...
...French Riviera. There, Julia and Simca will get down to the serious work of preparing Volume II of Mastering the Art. The new volume will follow the same pattern as the first, but will vary the recipes and include such new material as puff pastry, brioches, croissants and a plain chocolate cake. Promises Julia: "It's going to be the best chocolate cake anyone ever...
...Many experts predicted this would be Harvard's first losing season in eight years. The team rose to the occasion because everyone was willing to push themselves to the limit. Everyone was willing to pay the price of plain hard work...
...that his later work gave aid and comfort to the right, just as his earlier books had succored the left. The three novels that constitute District of Columbia (1952) have been unfairly dismissed as the rightist tracts of an embittered man. Yet there was no falling-off in the plain power of his prose. His role in the clash of generations showed an honest man's bad timing, not bad faith or bad judgment; for his literary reputation, though, it was certainly bad luck...
Influential Style. That hidden art was often overshadowed by Dos Passes' obtrusive style. He devised what he called The Camera Eye-poetically subjective inlays in the raw plain-deal prose, where the novelist had his metrical fling out of earshot of his characters. Another invention was the impressionist profile of contemporary figures, of which the most famous had the echoing refrain: "Wars, machine-gun fire and arson-good growing weather for the House of Morgan." These sketches-of Henry Ford and Big Bill Haywood the Wobbly leader, of Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan-were brilliant in themselves...