Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Participants should submit the names of fifteen selections, (the number of honoraries has been between 13 and 15 in the past four years) on a sheet of plain paper, to the CRIMSON office, at 14 Plympton Street. The contest will close on the final day of the term, June...
...Father Antonios, head priest of Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments. Karaolis wrote out his confession on a piece of paper. At 4 a.m. a guard nudged Antonios from a restless couch, led him to a dim room where two plain coffins stood by the wall. Because the British insisted on burial in the prison courtyard, i.e., in unhallowed ground, the Orthodox priest could not hold service. He read briefly from the Bible, then kissed each man on the forehead. They died bravely, he said...
Neither, many a Parisian agreed, had Paris itself, not even in the dark days when Adolf Hitler came to town as a conqueror. While the Yugoslav dictator and his official hosts swept freely along cleared boulevards in the city, the plain citizens of Paris found their own progress blocked at every turn. Never smooth flowing, the city's traffic became a nightmare of confusion as main thoroughfares were blocked off for hours at a time...
Back from their fortnight honeymoon in the Bahamas, New York Timesman Clifton Daniel and his bride, Margaret Truman Daniel, played it plain, set a refreshingly unobtrusive tone for their future public appearances. Said Cliff Daniel to fellow newsmen at New York International Airport: "We're an old married couple now, and we're not news any more." Asked if she plans to step back into radio and TV stardom, the girl from Missouri replied: "As long as it doesn't interfere with my husband's career...
Democracy . . . may be tolerable simply because the politicians who operate it are cynics. They never quite believe in the great causes that they merchant to the plain people, nor do they ever quite believe in the infamy of the opposition. The plain people are always outraged when they discover evidences of this tolerance, just as an ignorant litigant is outraged when he sees his lawyer eating lunch with the lawyer of his opponent. But it is precisely such cynicism toward undying doctrines and holy causes that makes civilized life possible in the world...