Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face it, the Industrial Revolution is over. What this country sorely needs now is a Manual Revolution, a return to greater reliance upon plain old manual labor. We can start by melting down the hundreds of thousands of electricity-consuming milking machines, then putting all the bureaucrats and millions of others not gainfully employed to work milking cows. If we are willing to rely upon people power rather than energy resources, we could really begin to defoliate the bureaucratic jungle, create a lot of honest jobs and save energy...
...spirituality is the habit of language, or the spark that led Helen Keller to conceive a universe of names and linguistic relationships out of the box of her senselessness. His writing style grows out of this attitude of detachment and rediscovery. Percy's sentences are made of very plain, when necessary very Anglo-Saxon English and his writing has the almost unnerving declarative quality of Vonnegut. He sees and writes from the detachment and rediscovery of his own life, his own apocalyptic transformation. Alfred Kazin writes that...
...five southern matches, tilts that don't count for the record, did not go well for the Crimson. After turning the Rambling Wreck of Georgia Tech into just a plain wreck, 7-2, Fish's charges fell to Georgia...
...pieces range in size from tiny pin boxes to giant platters, and in material from earthenware to porcelain. But it was as a maker of stoneware-that warm, quiet-colored material, lending itself to plain declarative shape-that Leach became best known. His lifelong fondness for it stems from the mingei (folk art) tradition of Japanese and Korean pottery. "We were artist potters," Leach says of his three-year partnership with Shoji Hamada, who helped him found the Leach pottery in St. Ives, "and we admired what is in folk art and nowhere else...
...drawing" are a legacy from Chinese Sung dynasty pottery. But the emblem of his style-and his favorite possession-is a Korean rice bowl, made by a 19th century village potter on an irregular wheel. "That is as it should be," he says, caressing the roughly glazed clay. "The plain and unagitated, the uncalculated, the harmless, the straightforward, the natural, the innocent, the humble, the modest: where does beauty lie if not in these qualities? More than anything else, this pot is healthy...