Word: plaines
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Hired as William Butler Yeats' secretary, he helped persuade the poet to adopt the direct, plain manner of his last and greatest period. Ezra raised money to support T.S. Eliot and, in the most celebrated editing feat of the century, transformed The Waste Land from a fascinating mess into a masterpiece. James Joyce admitted that without Pound's wheeling and dealing to put bread on his table, he could never have written Ulysses...
...attributed his Massachusetts plurality to a "grand coalition," and said much of his support came from "plain working men and women" and the backing of organized labor...
...passive, dull, and slightly sullen drive to do away with 'distinctiveness.'" In case you are still wondering just who Aldrich is referring to, he tells you how to spot them: "The most obvious emblem of the party is a uniform seen practically everywhere at Harvard--construction boots, jeans, plain flannel shirts, and puffy quilted parkas...
...surprise at the results of the June elections already betrays a general ignorance of Italian social and political affairs, since the elections simply confirmed what had been going on in plain sight for nearly a decade. But then to think that giving money to anti-Communist politicians would stem the rising red tide raises misunderstanding to the level of folly. Admittedly, Italian politicians are a notoriously corrupt bunch. Even the PC has taken a bribe or two in its day from large American companies (it was disclosed last year that Gulf had contributed several million dollars to PC election campaigns...
...peasants. Born in 1814, he spent most of his life in rural France. He was able to perceive the land and the labor it exacted from men as substance and process, not as a sight for a city-dwelling impressionist on an outing. Millet's The Plain of Chailly, 1862, was unlike virtually every previous landscape in Western art. It is neither a bird's-eye "world view" in the fashion of Bruegel nor a meditation on cosmic energy as in Turner. It is not "romantic." Especially, it is not a vision of property, such as Rubens painted...