Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition requires three. Naughty, naughty fellows! And then to say that this kind of leadership is like Moses leading people out of Egypt and that "we will, in 50 years, be the only Episcopal Church in the United States." That's not naughty. That's just plain arrogance. And who are the losers in all this? The few conscientious Episcopalians who will be drawn to this body, thinking they are joining an Anglican Church, will be the big losers. And that is the deepest tragedy...
...other respects, Pasternak acted with exemplary, even foolhardy courage, as Ivinskaya makes plain. During the Great Terror of the '30s, he had refused to sign an endorsement of the death sentence meted out to Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and other officers. In her memoirs Nadezhda Mandelstam recalled that Pasternak was the only person who dared visit her when her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a concentration camp. Pasternak bravely directed that the royalties for his translations of Shakespeare's tragedies be spent to help prisoners in the Gulag. When prison regulations eased after Stalin's death...
...wrote Privileged Ones, the fifth and final volume of Children of Crisis, because working-class people interviewed by Coles repeatedly told him that if he really wanted to understand the nation's poor, he must also study the ones who control their lives. "You really can't know about plain working people like us unless you go find out about the bigshots. It's their decisions which make us end up living our lives the way we do," one woman told Coles...
...time of trouble and lousy strife, You still have a darlint plan. You still can turn to a brighter life, A pint of plain is your only...
...them while we entertain them and not the other way around. And people allowed it to happen! But now they're not. Now there's a hell of a lot of new bands come up with exactly the opposite attitude. It's not condescension any more. It's plain honesty. If you don't like it, that's fine. You're not forced to like it through propaganda. People think we use propaganda. But we don't. We're not trying to be commercial. We're doing exactly what we want to do--what we've always done...