Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back at city hall, the Mayor has taken to the streets himself to demonstrate his personal commitment. At least twice a week during this first summer, Lindsay has spent a couple of hours walking through the ghettos, accompanied by plain clothesmen and one of his aides. Tanned and in shirt sleeves, the Mayor walks unannounced into the offices of community organizations and businesses, stopping to answer questions, to clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk...
William Congreve's Love For Love is an elegantly seditious play. Amidst all its comic intricacies and balanced construction are some just plain nasty cracks. "Honor is a public enemy, conscience, a domestic thief," we are told, and we shouldn't be too comfortable about the situation. At the play's end true love is rewarded, and the greed, lechery and feigning of feeling which have been smirked at as the keystones of Congreve's society are taken almost seriously and punished. Righteous sons rebuke their fathers and everybody does a curtain frug...
...boxes, the ceiling, the proscenium arch, the curtain, and the fifth violinist's teeth are gold. So is a sculpture above the stage that looks like a cubist's idea of a squatting giraffe. In the old Met, the gold was dark, worked and decorated; here it is plain and so bright it hurts the eyes. Little diamond mustaches are affixed to the boxes. And there are more star-shaped chandeliers. Clearly, someone got up one morning out of his Procrustean bed with the idea of shaping the place like the old Met, but clothing it to look like...
Among the country's half-dozen major museums, Cleveland has long enjoyed a reputation as an aristocrat, partly because its location kept it aloof from the hurly-burly of the international art markets, partly because its purchases were often choice but eccentric, mainly because it was just plain loaded with money. Blessed throughout its existence with a string of benefactors who left it both fine collections and huge bequests, including the $33 million Leonard C. Hanna Jr. legacy, Cleveland now boasts an endowment yielding $1.3 million annually-just $100,000 under that of New York's Metropolitan...
...jargon and burying their leads somewhere in the middle of their stories, Zweig has to edit heavily. But there are few complaints. Wrote Raoul Naroll, professor of anthropology, sociology and political science at Northwestern University: "It is startling to see some of my thoughts coming back to me in plain English...