Word: plaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain that no one really sees how to organize great industrial societies so as to satisfy the longing for such values as freedom, security, adventure and movement," Whitehead wrote. He spent his life trying to discover how to achieve such an organization of society...
Dudley proved that its teams play at least as poorly here as at home with two one-sided losses. The Commuters, employing a plain offense, gained a 12-0 touch football lead, but Pierson rebounded for a 38-24 triumph. Silliman routed the Dudley soccer team...
...Coop usually has three security guards, one uniformed and two in plain clothes, on duty. According to Zavelle, when one of these guards sees a suspected shoplifter, he keeps him under surveillance and, because the shoplifter law is a question of intent to steal, usually does not stop the offender until he has passed an area where he should have paid for the merchandise he has taken...
Necessarily, then, any successful candidate is going to have to sway votes in Roslindale, Hyde Park, Allston, Jamacia Plain and Charlestown- sections where one's neighborhood would not get him elected, but where his conservatism could. Since every candidate knows it, they all take the same stands. Naturally, the traditional pattern held up once again. Law-and-order, improved neighborhoods (without urban renewal), better schools, and closer-watched city finances are always successful platforms in Boston, but any serious candidate knows it, so there is little hope of selecting councillors by the issues. And drawing the vote from...
...studio and, after showing us the artificiality of the lighting and sets, invites us to accept them for their beauty, for the pleasant romance of the drama and its trappings. The first episode continues this artificiality by omitting foreground objects and shoving the characters up against backdrops, divorcing their plain flat facial lighting from the elaborate play of shadows on the flat sets. When the characters decide to join this trivial game of love, the bright spots of light dancing on the walls behind them begin to hit their faces, and the circle of love-affairs begins...