Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arnold Schulman's A Hole in the Head is a rather good addition to the corpus of laughter-and-tears drama. It is not a thesis play; nor is it a deep one. The author chose the just-plain-folks, people-in-the-house-next-door, it-could-happen-to-you genre, set within the framework of a specific middle-class cultural milieu--the sort that has tempted many American writers, with varying success, ever since Abie's Irish Rose...
...Republican brawl was that it gave the Democrats the chance to attack a man of straightforward ways and impersonal honesty as a ruthless politician who had brutally shoved Goodie Knight aside to satisfy his own consuming ambitions. And who could better save California from such a tyrant than just plain...
...raise Melvin's head from the kitchen floor; gently, Melvin ordered him not to, and braced his feet against a wall to ease his agony. While being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher, Loujean opened her eyes. Said she to a policeman: "Please feed the baby plain milk. No formula...
...background of the conversation (recorded, unknown to Stempel, in Enright's Madison Avenue office on March 7, 1957) remains murky. But it is plain that some time before, Stempel threatened to "expose" Enright. It is equally plain that Enright is willing to go to considerable expense and effort to calm Stempel down. Items from the sound track...
...term bond issues in June, a poor time because the market was at the top of a speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing down. But in June it also became plain that the recession had hit bottom and the FRB might have to tighten credit. Bond buyers saw the promise of higher interest ahead and dumped their holdings. The speculative bubble burst. As prices fell, the yields reached as high as 3! on Government bonds. The Government bond market turned...