Word: plaines
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...better job of placing this tetchy, formidable genius, with his astonishing powers of observation iand his bitter tongue ("Whistler, you behave as though you have no talent"), within the milieu of his time. Dunlop writes with warm understanding of Degas's paintings, discussing them without jargon; and his plain, elegantly turned prose does much to catch the "mysterious and fugitive beauty to many of his pictures which is apt to disappear under the scholarly microscope...
...holiday gift selections. Every year we give the same things--ties, records, shirts, books, calculators, bathrobes. Occasionally, of course, some inspired shopper picks out something really unique like a Vegematic, a Cuisinart, or even a backgammon set. On balance, though, the gifts we give--and get--are just plain boring...
Gilbert and Sullivan always sells better than the rest of Harvard theater. Who goes to see these shows? Administrators and their kids. Faculty and their kids. Music teachers, who mouth all the words, and their adopted kids. And just plain unaffiliated parents and their's. Yes, these tricks are for kids, and this year they're good tricks, so if you don't have a station wagon put them all on bicycles and head over. You may even enjoy yourself...
...crisis is outwardly apparent, what has happened inside him during these past days will have a profound effect on U.S. policy once we emerge from this trauma. Because Jimmy Carter, like all Presidents before him in recent years, has had to come back in the end to rely on plain old American military might. The men like John Foster Dulles, who restructured international relations after World War II, never had any doubts about the use of power, since they had seen how weakness invited aggression and defiance. President Carter, and a lot of others, thought he might modify that idea...
Georgescu's message to Romanian intellectuals is "to speak out: intellectuals have the duty to speak up when they are there." There is a faint hope given by a few courageous dissidents, but in general the prospects for changes are just plain bad. "The only way is to leave," he concludes...