Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carol or one of Luther's mighty hymns. Then Papa-head thrown back, fingers marching over the keys in a steady, stately rhythm-begins to improvise, outlining a succession of daring harmonies, guiding the simple theme through a contrapuntal labyrinth of variations. The melody emerges transformed: elaborate, yet plain; passionate, yet rigorously logical. It is a prayer to God in sound...
...characters and plots are pieces, and Our Author cannot deal with pieces. He must present the Life-Stream, the Continuum. But all our feeble intellects can perceive are pieces, so what could He do? I'll tell you what He did--He built for us a blank-white-nothing plain, peopled by two, maybe four-five hollow Kewpie Dolls. Very warm dolls, but hollow. Scattered on the white plain are hundreds of little tags, some of them hard to make out, but all right there. One will...
Hundreds of these tags. But under the plain, deep and ominous, sometimes even bumping up against the surface, rages The American Civil War, the real one. A lost Confederate general, so scared he hears himself calling out his own name, "running through the casual but chess-like deaths in the Wilderness." A headlike corpse. Upstairs and downstairs. Marijuana smoke and cannon smoke. As the Poet sings: "A punctured lung, and the band plays on." The perfect Setup...
...wily and emotional in his diplomatic dealings as a wildcat forced to play parlor games. Almost his opposite in personality and background is Carl Aspinwall, the U.S. Ambassador to Latifundia. Harvard-educated scion of an aristocratic New England family, Aspinwall has tried to build a diplomatic career on plain dealing, only to find his word and position repeatedly betrayed by shifts in policy...
...Model Cities Program has occupied stage center for the last few months. The Model Cities area in Boston encompasses about 62,000 residents, mostly black, in the Roxbury, North Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain sections of Boston. White submitted an $18 million plan to the Council, including provisions for community control of schools within the area and replacement of police by neighborhood "security patrols...