Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father Philip Berrigan put it in a statement read by one of the codefendants: "It is not a priority of ours to win an acquittal, but to conduct a political trial and get the issues before the American people." The Government, of course, sees the trial as a straightforward criminal prosecution...
After that book was published, Medvedev was fired from his job as head of the Obninsk radiological institute, 35 miles southwest of Moscow. Unable to find another job, he set about writing a calm, straightforward survey of the restrictions, censorship, and surveillance that oppress many Soviet intellectuals. This work too found its way to the West via samizdat (literally "self-publishing"), the literary underground. It was his authorship of that book, published in the U.S. this week by St. Martin's Press as The Medvedev Papers, which led directly to Medvedev's forced hospitalization last year...
...words sound almost as if they could have been spoken by the Apostle Paul himself. They are, rather, the words of a U.S. Senator, Oregon's Mark O. Hatfield. In a straightforward new book, Conflict and Conscience (Word Books; $4.95), Republican Hatfield explains how his conservative Protestant theology* has impelled him to become one of his party's leading liberals...
Undeniably, the traditional translation by Constance Garnett (done in 1916) had a quality of oak paneling and stained-glass windows (not to say cobwebs), and Professor MacAndrew's new version is brisk and straightforward. A typical Garnett phrase like "bother the fellow" has become "the hell with him." And those elaborate patronymics have disappeared, so that Tatyana Pavlovna is now simply Mrs. Prutkov. But in his effort to be up-to-date, MacAndrew also afflicts us with such colloquialisms as "know-how" and "twerp." Mrs. Garnett's simple statement, "Don't be angry, Prince...
From Flophouse to Gallery. For New York's better-heeled artists, the reaction was straightforward: buy a SoHo building outright, or convert it into a coop. A pioneer of that gambit was Louise Nevelson, who purchased a vacant five-story sanitarium on Spring Street and turned it into a succession of mysterious caves lined with her black, white, gold and Plexiglas constructions. Roy Lichtenstein acquired one vast floor of a bankrupt bank on the Bowery (other floors were taken by Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman). Kenneth Noland bought a storage building; Robert Rauschenberg, a flophouse-cum-church on Lafayette...