Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resources of that difficult, plastic language. Ivan Denisovich's speech is essentially free of foreign-derived words, as is the entire book. One of the prisoner-scientists in The First Circle insists on attempting what he calls "plain speech," in which non-Russian words are banished, even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing...
...G.S.T. was Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's answer to Czecho slovakia, as speakers at last week's rally in East Berlin made plain. The contagious enthusiasm of the young Czechoslovaks for liberalization sent a chill down Ulbricht's spine. His response was direct: to bring his own teen-agers out of the coffee shops in what amounts to a junior branch of the Volksarmee. G.S.T. provided a handy vehicle for just that. Linked with the party since its founding in 1952, it was taken over by the Defense Ministry in 1956. It remained little more than...
...demonstrators went too far. While being represented at the convention by men seeking change through the system, they went outside the system and took to pressure tactics. And change outside the system is revolution plain and simple. Fellow students, don't you believe in representative government? As long as you are a minority, you must submit to the majority and try harder...
...three days and three nights, through intermittent downpours, the musicians held the first Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair. The music was incessant, loud, wild and swinging-folk rock, just plain folk, acid rock, cool jazz, blues, country and Western. There were tents pitched in Betty's muddy meadow, but nobody did much sleeping. The first night, everybody stayed up listening to the music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians...
...Bother. "At least 75% of the accidents could have been easily avoided by minuscule foresight," sighs Captain David Oliver of the Coast Guard in Chicago. "Mostly it's just plain stupidity." Seasoned boatmen still shake their heads over the youthful sport who recently went blasting around Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., with a water-skier in tow. Keeping his eyes on the skier, he slammed at 30 m.p.h. into a cabin cruiser, decapitating himself in the process. Equally foolish were the nine people who piled into a 16-ft. outboard and put to sea from York, Me., last June...