Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America, and how to translate that heart to other peoples . . . You cannot be leaders unless you understand each other and help nations understand each other. The scope of the understanding you must achieve far transcends what your illustrious commandant and I understood when we were waiting on the plain at West Point 40 or more years ago, receiving our diplomas...
...straight," I said. "You tell them this in schools?" Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen laughed at my amazement. So did the other guests. One wondered if I was religious. "How," I said to Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen, "can a boy or girl of 17 or 18 know the difference between love and plain old biological urge?" "Oh, they can tell love," she said. "They can tell real love." Everyone nodded in agreement. A small, dark man who, I later learned, was a psychiatrist, tried to explain. "The only difference between our behavior here and behavior in other countries is that we face...
...motion sent spectators out. I wouldn't do that." Instead of ordering newsmen out, Judge Fulton asked the defendants first to formally waive their constitutional right to a public trial. Only then did the judge order press and spectators out of the court. But the Cleveland Plain Dealer and News and Scripps-Howard Press appealed the ban anyway. Last week an Ohio Court of Appeals ruled that the press had a right in the courtroom. Said the Court of Appeals: "A defendant has no right ... to a private trial . . . Crime and corruption grow and thrive in darkness and secrecy...
Blacher: Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Paganini (RIAS Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca). The same theme (for solo violin) used by Brahms for his famed Variations gets some plain and fancy going-over by one of Germany's most successful living composers. Boris Blacher uses a big orchestra in opulent style, with emphasis on suave clarinet murmurings, massed brasses in swing-band style and ingratiating melodies. The disk is Vol. I of Decca's New Directions in Music and Sound. Debussy: Pelleas and Mélisande (Janine Micheau, Camille Maurane; chorus and Lamoureux Orchestra conducted...
...Well, uh, it's just a . . . plain rabbit, yes, rabbit...