Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also said that the country must overcome the adversarial relationship that exists between certain groups, hindering the cooperation necessary to attack its economic problems. "we have to cut out this plain silly notion that the government is our enemy," he said...
...unfortunate allegations of religious discrimination...obscure the plain facts that there are today members of the three major faiths in this country in each of the seventeen eating clubs and that every one of the sophomores who has not joined a club in 1958 was offered club membership."--Robert F. Goheen, president, Princeton University--"It is fair to say that the seriousness of these allegations has been exaggerated by several individuals who sought to impose their wishes on the clubs...
...boots, "Brad" would frequently abandon his desk at headquarters for flights to the front in a Piper Cub. There, he insisted on inspecting everything from forward outposts to latrines. Though not noted for eloquence, he enjoyed addressing the troops in his flat Missouri twang, and he gave them plain talk. "Fellows like me have been in this business a long time," he told a unit being trained for the D-day invasion...
While Boorman does not make Excalibur the extravagant tour-de-force it might have been, he does manage a fine depiction of an ageless tale without excessive tribute to the contemporary schlock impulse. If the times demand adventure stories, they should all aspire to the plain intelligence of Excalibur...
Pecola, in The Bluest Eye, wished for blue eyes that would carry her away from the indifference with which plain little Black girls with kinky hair and dark skin were treated. Her ghosts agitated her with visions of a softer feminity than the one she seemed destined to live, while at the same time they haunted her rapist father with clues to her extreme pathos. From this story, and from Sula, where ghosts exist but are still subordinated by present reality, Morrison leaped to a world where spirits have full control over reality in the mythical novel Song of Solomon...