Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of them owned until recently by descendants of the painter in England, now at Manhattan's Bernard Black Gallery. Since the drawings are mostly landscapes or sketches for larger compositions, the gallery placed them, wherever possible, next to a photocopy of the finished work. The demonstration is plain: as West's ideas progressed from initial draft to finished sketch to final oil, faces froze, bodies puffed out. The muscular athlete in the initial sketch becomes, on canvas, a wooden Greek soldier. In almost every case, West was at his best when he stuck to his least...
Graves is plain where FitzGerald is prettified, philosophic where FitzGerald is sententious. His austere tone evokes a more troubled, yearning Omar whose tippling is a metaphor for religious mysticism. Yet, surprisingly for a poet of his skill and grace, Graves often lapses into ungainly syntax, primly avoids rhymes, and altogether misses the colorful, melodious murmur that so entrances the ear and emotions in FitzGerald. He may be deliberately exercising his classical restraint or making an overzealous try for accuracy. In any case, he stiffens the flow of the poem. Here is one of FitzGerald's best-known quatrains...
...overplayed." Were the "military maneuvers" of the Russian army in Poland over? "Why don't you ask the Poles?" Cernik insisted that Czechoslovakia would never alter its ties to Russia, but added: "We think we can contribute to the dismantling of the cold war." Cernik and Sik made plain that investments by the capitalist world would henceforth be welcome, announced that small, family-scale free enterprise would again be permitted in Czechoslovakia. Eventually, Sik said, he hoped to make the Czechoslovak koruna a convertible currency, and even to enroll his country in the International Monetary Fund...
...Faculty talking most of next fall, the specific suggestions for change are far less remarkable than the tone of the report in which they are offered. For while proposing ways for the University to hire and keep top-notch Faculty, the Committee has also delivered a massive dose of plain talk on Harvard's place in American education and her prospects for the future...
...split as if someone had tried to get at the bone marrow. "I think that it's entirely possible that the Marmes man was consumed by his buddies," says Geologist Fryxell. "In other words, they had him for dinner." From the fragmented condition of the skull, it was plain that Marmes man had also suffered from Excedrin Headache...