Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's favorite poet is Dylan Thomas, and he has read most of his works. He liked Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, an account of Kennedy's presidency. He thought Plain Speaking, the profile of Harry Truman by Merle Miller, was especially instructive. His favorite "trade book" is The Presidential Character, an analysis by Duke University's James David Barber of the traits that make for strong and weak chief executives...
...evident that in many areas of American life we have reached the threshold of tolerance for Government interference. It is not a matter of ideology. It is plain human protest against inconvenience, burden and limitation...
...state policy generally deny that such practices exist. At the same time, the difficulty of making unhindered investigations of conditions in closed societies and police states virtually guarantees that many abuses remain uncovered. Torture, moreover, is a most murky area, rife with exaggerated claims, politically motivated propaganda and just plain misinformation. Nonetheless, independent human rights organizations, reporters and others have managed through interviews and on-the-scene investigations to compile a credible and apparently accurate record of torture in many parts of the world...
Beyond these and a few others, Washington columning is a dull plain -unadventuresome and predictable. Often the predictability is intended and marketed as such, the print equivalents of those televised pillow fights between Galbraith and Buckley. Mostly the designated labels...
Cole Stevens as the mayor does not have Leach's excuse; George's development is clearly delineated in the play's action. With little subtlety, Stevens lapses into an Outer Limits-like trance which is supposed to resemble a nervous collapse, but just looks plain silly...