Word: plain
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Sticky political issues collide with the pristine Harvard image set forth in news office pamphlets and fund-raising speeches even in periods of relative calm. "Things have been plain dull recently." Lord says, but her office has had to work hard on the continuing sagas of town-and-gown relations, and racial tensions on campus, as well as the occasional shenanigans of the school's professors. This spring, for instance, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor Emeritus, put himself in the middle of an international war of words when he announced that nuclear-armed American ships have docked in Japan since...
Ronald Reagan, it is now plain, cannot cut taxes as he has and buy all the military hardware he wants. His silver tongue has not won the hard hearts of Wall Street. Older Americans, who adored Reagan as one of their own battling inflation, are ready to claw him to death if he threatens Social Security and other entitlement programs, which must be cut if he is to restrain federal spending...
...walking. And it was a good time to be in school if you had no money, because in 1935 no one had any money to speak of." Supporting himself by waiting on tables and putting out fires, Kelleher soon discovered his passion, Irish literature and history. "It just plain fascinated me. You could almost say I had a mania for it," he declares. For three years he followed a normal undergraduate course; in his fourth, he was chosen as one of a select few senior fellows and allowed to pursue independent work. "I spent the year trying to master everything...
...first Republican Senator from his state since Jeter Pritchard arrived in Washington in 1895, Helms moved his family into a plain, $46,000 house in suburban Arlington, Va. He assembled a squad of smart, youngish devotees more ruthlessly conservative, if that is possible, than he. After weeks of new-boy floundering, Helms was taken in hand by the late Senator James Allen of Alabama. Allen taught him all the parliamentary angles, and the pupil waded eagerly into the minutiae of procedure...
DIED. Roger Baldwin, 97, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifelong champion of individual freedom; of heart disease; in Ridgewood, N.J. The patrician but plain-living Baldwin worked as a probation officer, college professor, common laborer and executive secretary of the Civic League of St. Louis before joining with two New York City lawyers in 1920 to form the A.C.L.U., which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John...