Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fate of the intelligentsia who live by ideas often to be imprisoned by them. Yet, finally, can we resist the plain evidence of our senses? Might not we begin to be responsive to the possibility that in Dr. Baeck's free citizen, our fellow countryman (Homo Americanus), we have not merely a lesser evil but a substantial, palpable, perhaps victorious good...
...days of the dictatorship of Senator McCarthy, when printing presses stood mute, when freedom of expression went underground in the universities, and radio-TV stations and the lights of Broadway and Hollywood were extinguished; and when roving mobs of Legionnaires cast into the overflowing dungeons any government employee or plain citizen heard expressing "an unpopular opinion." So our most reliable watchmen -from Justice William O. Douglas up and down-believed and reported week after week in the news columns, special "surveys," and Sunday magazine section of the authoritative New York Times, and so their opposite numbers in Europe read...
...minds of plain people, if not of geographers, the width of the broad Atlantic has been measured less in miles than in the hours, days and weeks it has taken men to cross it. In Columbus' day, the other side of the ocean seemed as far away as the other side of the moon. His caravels crawling painfully across the Atlantic for 71 days brought it very little closer. The gap (67 days) put between themselves and their homeland gave the Mayflower pilgrims a sense of freedom they could never find on King James's side...
...Russia's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1948, Malik has rivaled even his predecessor Gromyko for plain cussedness (52 vetoes), false charges (germ warfare) and phony offers (the Korean truce). In 1950 he became a TV character as familiar as Hopalong Cassidy, and brought the voice and face of the enemy into the American living room. Last week, Malik was being recalled from his U.N. post for "rest and re-assignment." (Best guess: a high post in the Kremlin's Far East Department.) Asked about his new duties, Malik said only: "There is no unemployment...
...domestic policies. We might look at theirs too, and conclude that one reason Canada is doing so well is that it isn't pulling its weight. It hasn't even the guts to demand conscription." The family reunion promises to be a forum for some healthy plain talk...