Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureau's assistant directors in Washington for approval of an investigation employing an "unorthodox" or "unusual" technique and promising "full security." Attached to the request was a detailed explanation of what was meant by full security. Recalled an FBI official: "The explanation made it plain that what was suggested was a black bag job and included the physical layout of the target and the schedule of the security men, if there were any." Headquarters' approval was qualified: "As long as full security is assured, go ahead." According to the official, this meant "go ahead...
...must love this American view of learning as the tool by which man transforms himself. We Americans believe that everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. There is something admirable about this, yet nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most...
...with the fact that they have not seen the classics of the Renaissance, that their heritage comes from sign painters for taverns rather than salon painters for courts. They (and their sitters) want a likeness that conveys how ordinary Americans live, what manner of people they are -prosperous but plain, not elegant but confident. Such elements may not survive either in the new Republic or in its art; but as of now, these painters, this instinct, are what is inherently American. We should cherish them...
General Lee said after meeting Paine, "He has genius in his eyes." But that genius may be nothing more than the ability to speak plainly to plain citizens like himself, and thus to preach a sermon so powerful that the listener finds himself converted...
...cemetery in West Cambridge, near Coolidge Hill, is simply beautiful, with a great view of Boston. You'll know that Nathaniel Hawthorne would have been proud of your ability to confront the forces of darkness. Harvard happens to own another close-to-home retreat, the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain (Boston...