Word: plain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From time to time, Kim loses control of himself. A handful of the inversions themselves border on the illegible, and one or two of his propositions in the accompanying essays are just plain ridiculous. It's hard to take Kim seriously when he suggests that "creating a design on your own name can be a powerful experience in defining your own identity." He sounds like a crank when he writes, "There is so much to be learned from playing with letters--why isn't more of this taught in schools?" Most disturbing of all is the statement...
...women is one of 25 members of Project Third Nail, a therapeutic community--"TC"-- in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. The current residents range in age from 18 to 40. They have a great deal in common--they are tired of their lifestyles, tired of courts, tired of running. And they are all looking and working for an escape from the chains of drug addiction. The group is largely self-supported, raising money through fairs, car washes, flea markets, dances and other community events. A professional teacher prepares residents for their equivalency diplomas; a court liaison works for residents...
Sunday Afternoon Walk--Arnold Arboretum, Dana Greenhouse, Centre St., Jamaica Plain, 2 p.m. (Shuttle buses leave Lamont Library...
...price meal. The school has not yet completed processing income-report forms from parents, however, so for the moment the free meals continue. The total cost of the Eastman program in the last school year: $336,375, of which 40% was contributed by the Federal Government. The lunches are plain: on one day, a hot dog and bun, three-eighths of a cup of watery beans and three-eighths of a cup of canned peaches. The children wolfed down the franks and peaches but left the beans. In all schools, urban and rural, rich and poor, teachers seem to have...
DIED. Harry Golden, 79, humorist-cum-moralist who used the pages of his one-man newspaper, the Carolina Israelite, to celebrate the vagaries of life and attack racial discrimination, collecting his writings in the bestsellers Only in America (1958), For 2? Plain (1959) and Enjoy, Enjoy! (1960); of a heart attack; in Charlotte, N.C. A Jewish immigrant's son who was reared on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson...