Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blunt & Plain. Addressing his own constituents at Woodford, Essex, Sir Winston was in the midst of a routine speech defending German rearmament and reminding them that he was the first to warn that the West needed Germany on its side against Russian aggression. "Even before the war had ended," he went on, "and while the Germans were surrendering by hundreds of thousands, I telegraphed to Lord Montgomery, directing him to be careful in collecting the German arms, to stack them so that they could easily be issued again to the German soldiers whom we should have to work with...
...Hurok's Aida (see CINEMA), the young, beautiful Ethiopian slave girl really was young and beautiful (played by Italy's Sophia Loren, with the singing voice dubbed in); and while the Nile flowed realistically, the extras were dazzlingly costumed and the plot was explained in plain English. Hollywood's Carmen Jones, for its part, transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French into minstrel-show English. With all these modern wonders, the Metropolitan Opera dared...
Pleistocene Minnehaha. Some 6,000 miles away, on a bleak, dry plain near Midland, Texas, the new-type scientific diggers got a full workout. Their problem was a broken-up skull, found 17 months ago by Keith Glasscock, an amateur archaeologist (TIME, July...
...hated hypocrisy, and so did his principal literary heroes, Julien Sorel. the ambitious provincial, Lucien Leuwen, the morose bourgeois, Fabrizio del Dongo, the romantic idealist. But to all of them and to all the young men who set out to conquer the world, Stendhal's message was plain: be insincere. It is one of the piquant paradoxes of the diary that Beyle offers the advice in all sincerity...
Frodo at Fifty. Author Tolkien is the more disciplined storyteller, and The Fellowship of the Ring is the more appealing book. Actually, it is only the first third of a massive, three-volume cycle. The novel centers on a plain gold ring, magic but evil. The power of the ring varies. A simple soul can slip it on and make himself invisible, but a tyrant can slip it on and rule the world. In The Fellowship of the Ring, which takes place in the "Third Age of Middle Earth," the drama springs from the fact that a simple soul...