Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pennant of aggression and ill-used power. The more militant have responded to it with the conditioned reflex of rage, flying the Stars and Stripes upside down from the Statue of Liberty or setting it aflame. In reaction to this lack of respect, the "100% Americans" and just plain Middle Americans have endowed Old Glory with an almost regal air. With more truth than he knew, Billy Graham once declared: "The flag is our queen...
...editors. Some are poor editors; some are good editors; some are very good editors; and some have a talent for the business. But even the talented came up the hard way--word-brick by word-brick--until they were eventually able to combine their God-given talent with plain hard work to reach a most enviable position. This all sounds like rough, rugged ritual--and it is just that...
...whole world marches through the White House," says Sidey. "I intend to take up part-time residence at the TIME typewriter in the basement and watch the parade. But you also have to stand in the streets with the plain folks and listen to their cheers and boos. You have to look at the apparition behind the tall fences and put into words its postures and bloviations, its true hopes and triumphs...
...following selections are from Voices from the Plain of Jars. Life under an Air War,a collection of first hand accounts by Laotian peasants of American bombing raids near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The book has been compiled by an American journalist. Fred Branfman and was published last year by Harper and Row. Perhaps it can help us to hear the American bombers overhead...
...portico opening generously toward the street (below, opposite). Inside the museum, this conversation of silvery tones resumes as the sun spills through a long slit in the roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung on yokes. The light washes the plain concrete surface of the cycloids, gently blending warmer reflections from a white oak floor. Curve answers to curve, vault to channel. There is no glare on the pictures. Yet as the sun moves, the light, and by implication the space, changes subtly, like reflections in a pond...