Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pisani, who is 48 years old, was born in East Cambridge and grew up in a Jamaica Plain orphanage. He has been on the Cambridge city force 17 years and last year specialized in community relations...
...personal touch. From the habit of using a "guest book" at political receptions (begun as a way to compile mailing lists at Jack Kennedy coffee hours in 1952), O'Brien's accent has been on candor and grass-roots contact. He argues that within reason, plain talk is good politics...
Brute Force. In public, American officials had nothing but praise for these Russian efforts. Their private comments, however, still reflected their concern about the relatively primitive Soviet hardware, the lack of quality controls and the Russian penchant for testing in flight rather than on the ground. "Plain, goddamned brute-force engineering," said one U.S. official...
...years ago Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences enrolled more blacks than it did last year, or this year, or any year before or after those rebellious days at the end of the 1960s. Despite the great ado about recruiting minorities and establishing Afro-American Studies, the plain fact is that classes entering the Graduate School recently have been "whiter" than those of some earlier years. Why has Harvard's attempt at integration failed? Has there in fact been a genuine attempt at integration...
Many of the remaining pieces make ingenious use of clay, transparent plastics or just plain pencil; only a few, like some cluttered and drab collages, are disappointing. As though filling in for an absent receptionist, an old woman of papier mache sits at her door-side table. The woman stares catatonically out of pale blue eyeballs and you can sidle right up and stare back without feeling embarrassed. Her card says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals...