Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most common reasons given for this silence were a belief that the case could not be solved for lack of proof, and a resigned feeling that the incident was not important enough to merit the attention of the police. The job before big-city police departments is plain enough: to convince the public that reporting crimes is necessary and worthwhile-and that one of the policeman's responsibilities is to establish proof...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
...movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain. The time has come for the liberation of the poor farm worker. iViva la causa...
Almost outside the realm of Restoration comedy, The Plain Dealer is practically unique among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William Wycherley reversed these trends, hastening the decay of the comedy of manners. Pure intellect was replaced by feeling, pure wit by emotion. The Plain Dealer is an intriguing mixture of realism and artificiality, of emotion and intellect, lacking meanwhile the polished style and all-pervasive wit of the great masters...
John Turner's production of The Plain Dealer deserves more attention and praise than it will probably receive. Fascinating and perturbing social contrasts are brought out in a delicate yet piercing fashion. Wycherly's whip lashes out at women, fops, wits, and lawyers as he peers into man's social nature. He beats the sores of hypocrisy and deception so raw that even today they are hard to ignore. His disgust is let loose on an age of paradox and perversity--an age not unlike our own, where a mere consciousness of the profound problems of human life is hardly...