Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's first real post-election test has come in, of all places, his home town of Plains. There, at his country-plain, white Baptist church-a setting all the more dramatic because of its small scale-he had to resolve a controversy that threatened to tarnish his Presidency before it began. The issue: whether blacks would be permitted to join the church. After a membership meeting last Sunday, equality-and Jimmy-emerged as winners; the congregation voted to end race restrictions...
...save the English language from the galloping blight of jargon, pomposity, staleness, imprecision, ugliness and plain nonsense? Not authorities or institutions, writes Edwin Newman. The only hope is "individuals or small guerrilla groups" who practice "rebelliousness, buccaneering and humor...
...Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester Times-Union, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader. In the South, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Nashville Banner, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Times Herald. In the Midwest, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln (Neb.) Journal, Tulsa (Okla.) World, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In the West, Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal. San Diego Union. Portland's Oregonian...
...Crimson, plain and simply, has to win. It has to win to keep alive the hope of even sharing the Ivy championship, and it has to win for its own self-respect...
...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent. It is plain and simple reduction of feeling. If you can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either. And the world is full of pain. Also joy, evil. Goodness. Horror and love. You name it, it's there. Sealing yourself off is just going through the motions...