Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line for a balanced budget (TIME, Jan. 5 et seq.). Most pundits gave the President hardly a chance to make the decision stick-but he did. During the Berlin crisis, while Secretary of State John Foster Dulles lay dying, it was Dwight Eisenhower who laid down the strong, plain line in a television address to the nation: "We have no intention of forgetting our rights or of deserting a free people. Free men have, before this, died for so-called 'scraps of paper' which represented duty and honor and freedom...
...Plain, Golden...
...ordinary literary standards, Guest's verse was mundane doggerel, written in soporific singsong and filled with synthetic back-country colloquialism. Guest's world abounded with wimmen folks, doctor folks, farmer folks and jes' plain folks. He extolled friendship and friends, God and worship, his wife Nellie, his son Bud, his daughter Janet, the virtues of porch sitting, of babies, tablecloths, wood-burning stoves and wooden tubs, sausage, and two kinds of pie (lemon and raisin). To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile." Samples of his rhyming...
...Plain, by Harry Golden. More potshots, most of them in the bull, in the Carolina Israelite's blintzkrieg of sentiment about old New York, satire about the new South...
...entirely different mood, neither nymph-like nor villainous, Ellis Rabb is absolutely superb. It is no news that Mr. Rabb is a fine classic actor (having appeared as Hamlet and Lear to great critical acclaim); but as Smee, Captain Hook's sentimental side-kick, he is just plain riotous. He has but to walk across the stage to get a laugh. The characterization is similar to one he used as Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford last summer; but since he has considerably more to say as Smee, the concept is considerably enlarged. The shaky voice...