Word: plainest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good enough, I thought. And then I read the end of the article. I've never been able to forget it. And in it lies the plainest argument for preserving the community of Harvard, not Club Harvard...
...precisely the business of Witness, which is one of the most originally conceived and gracefully made suspense dramas of recent years, to work into edgy juxtaposition the representatives of two subcultures that are ordinarily mutually exclusive. Those dark figures in the fields are Amish, members of the plainest of the plain (and pacifist) religious sects. Their faith forbids them to use the paraphernalia of modern life. They work their Pennsylvania farms without benefit of electricity or the internal combustion engine, and as a result lead lives that seem to the frantic urban outsider idyllic, exemplary and very fragile. That...
...privately, in the plainest possible language, what I had repeated to him and Begin and their colleagues many times before: unless there was an internationally recognized provocation, and unless Israeli retaliation was proportionate to any such provocation, an attack by Israel into Lebanon would have a devastating effect in the U.S. "No one," Sharon replied, in his truculent way, "has the right to tell Israel what decision it should take in defense of its people...
...physics lab in Moscow. Cormerford and Adamski, charged last week, each face up to seven years in prison. Prankish federal agents decided to send along the Soviet-bound parcels-sort of. They filled the crates with 700 Ibs. of concrete and, inside one, tucked a two-word note, in plainest English...
...most ways, Barragán is a maverick in the architectural establishment. He has frequently deplored what he calls "architects' architecture" and admits no debt to the International Style of the Bauhaus. He uses the plainest of materials ? adobe, raw beams, cobbles ? to create astringently el egant effects. His commitment is not to community or social function but to privacy: "Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices...