Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hugh Sidey's column "When the Elite Loses Touch," which attacked East Coast intellectuals' support of the Democrats, neglects the fact that close to 37 million "plain people" in the electorate saw through the Reagan smokescreen of flag waving and good feeling. They realized that the President possesses no substance and voted for Mondale and Ferraro...
Sidey goes too far when he rhapsodizes over the wisdom of the plain people, whose voting preferences differed so sharply from those of America's intellectuals. Was it wisdom that North Carolinians showed in returning Jesse Helms to the Senate? Better to see it for what it is, a mixture of prejudice, gullibility and fear...
...N.E.H. prescription for this deep malaise is a reshaping of "undergraduate curricula based on a clear vision of what constitutes an educated person." The Bennett report makes plain its own vision...
...circumstances like that are just plain humiliating," he says...
...their collections. Most paintings come to museums framed by dealers or patrons, not by the artists, and curators have often felt free to update. Two years ago, the National Museum of American Art, in Washington, took the reverse route, restoring ornate frames to paintings it had earlier reset in plain wooden strips. Says Chief Curator Elizabeth Broun: "We thought it was more historically correct...