Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Timothy S. Mayer `66, the only other senior on the committee defended the present system of elections, adding that he saw no reason to enlarge the committee beyond "plain old common American five...
...Elbow Room. The U.S. unit that found the going toughest was the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage...
Rexroth's own language is simple. His mother had taught him that plain speech was a mark of personal distinction. In his case perhaps...
...places and ideas. And what people! Rexroth's book is a Who's Non-Who of every oddball in the nonEstablishment U.S. of the past generation-feminists, Wobblies, Free Silver men, free-love ladies, anarchists, proto-bolsheviks, pacifists, radicals, populists, vegetarians, ragged Utopians, prophets without portfolio and plain cranks. His record makes the current anti-Establishment of beatnik non-opters seem limp and goofy. " 'Free love, free liquor, free Mooney,' proclaimed the banners of my youth,"* Rexroth says happily today. He has produced a splendid piece of Americana of a kind that defies academic research...
...Plain Speech." He recounts the successful defense of his heterosexual hon or against the assault of perverted Chicago cops-and later of giant Negro homosexuals in jail-with the same modest gusto of a college quarterback telling Coach how he managed to shake the field. It was a rough world, not just on the picket lines but in the interminable ideological warfare among the power addicts on the outer fringe of communoid politics. This kind of politics seems as dead today as Joe Hill. The reader will wonder how, among his chosen society-the failed saints, moral riffraff, ignorant zealots...