Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie. In this kind of film a lot of people get together and romp all over the place for about 75 minutes. The Beatles did this in Hard Day's Night; Annette Funicello and cohorts had their fun in Beach Party; and now Tiny Tim, the hippies and some plain old hipsters (e.g., Malcolm Boyd) get their chance to whoop it up in You Are What...
Pennsylvania. To get into Congress in 1960, Republican Richard S. Schweiker had to buck G.O.P. pros. Now he has ousted two-term Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark. A prosperous tile manufacturer and a Schwenkfelder-a member of one of Pennsylvania's "plain" sects-Schweiker, 42, does not smoke, rarely drinks, and then only wine. A self-styled moderate, he is an outspoken civil rights champion and an earnest advocate of draft reform...
...Recognizing this, New York's National Bank of North America (assets $1.6 billion) has begun putting its most attractive figures behind the counters. Touting some of the "beautiful reasons" to do business at its 90 branches, the bank has launched an ad campaign declaring "the end of the plain Jane bank teller...
Eugene O'Neill will probably be remembered as one of the most flawed major playwrights in history. Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired Mary McCarthy to remark: "You cannot write a Platonic dialogue in the style of Casey...
...didn't know if the whole affair would be embarrassing all around but that I imagined that it could be, and that it ought to be his decision under the circumstances whether or not to come up. I did not disinvite him, and I thought I made that plain to your reporter. It was Mr. Kopkind's decision to withdraw. Michael C. Janeway...