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HERMAN E. TALMADGE, 59, a Georgia Democrat, is a plainspoken, cigar-chomping Senate veteran who had to be prodded into serving on the committee. "I don't have the time nor the resources nor the inclination to be a private eye," he explains. Whatever Ervin does will be all right with Talmadge...
...Christian centuries that followed were more plainspoken. Tertullian reflected the mind of many early church fathers when he pronounced, in the 3rd century, that women were "the devil's gateway...
...black poets. She is also one of the most visible, not only because she is beautiful but because she is a shrewd and energetic propagandist. In this interim autobiography, both poet and propagandist underscore that point about black love and happiness. Part memoir and part manifesto, it is a plainspoken, lively, provocative, confusing book...
...message: radical change, total resistance. Yet it was refined, carefully restricted resistance that the Berrigans preached. "Do not validate old bankrupt methods of coercion and murder." Daniel warned, "by creating new. bankrupt methods of roughly the same things." They remained exasperatingly ebullient: Philip was still the gregarious, plainspoken man who greeted friends with bear hugs or bone-crushing handshakes: Daniel still the wide-smiling purveyor of a deep, almost secret gaiety. When Daniel was arrested in August, the photo of the arrest prompted Dwight Macdonald and Robert McAfee Brown to identical judgments: Berrigan, grinning, was the free man; the dour...
Room for Change. The revised English version has already gone to U.S. Catholic publishers. Its language is, in most cases, a fresh, understandable, remarkably successful distillation of international English-plainspoken perhaps, but often poetic. Some foreign countries, such as Japan, have chosen to prepare their own translations from the English rather than the Latin text...