Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corn. Mixing orchestra music, songs, plain talk, sentiment, shenanigans, commercials, and poems that would have embarrassed Edgar Guest. Breakfast Club is the salt of the air. The visiting audience is full of people who listen to McNeill every day without fail, and they feel no restraint about participating. One woman walked up to him during a show recently and hefted a likker pot toward him, drawling: "Ah brought you a small jug of corn from Alabama." "We got our own corn on this show," said...
...Conn. But there are other kinds of people in the U.S., and they have made Don McNeill the most enduringly successful broadcasting talent in the country. "Our theme is to make a neighborhood of a nation," he says. He is the archenemy of smut. His show is clean, decent, plain, straightforward, decorous, honest, and full of gimmicks like the daily snake march around the breakfast table. And even if McNeill says good-morning and reports, "It's a foggy, soggy morning in Chicago," fans all over the U.S. nonetheless detect a shaft of sunshine in his voice...
...Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McClellan committee, complained that an Agriculture Department check of his correspondence with the department had inspired Democrats in his home state to ask Freeman for evidence of any connection between Mundt and Billie Sol. Growled Mundt to Minnesotan Freeman: "In the plain Midwestern language that we both understand. I ask you to put up or shut up! If you have any evidence, bring it out on the record and don't give it to a favored newsman." Freeman shrugged off the complaint: "There was no reason we shouldn't have...
...years after Rosa's death, the Cavendish was meeting the ignominious end that has overtaken many of London's best-loved structures in the postwar building boom. In September it will be torn down to make way for a gleaming new (and conventional) hotel. Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures...
Social Credit's nominal national leader is Robert Thompson, a onetime Alberta chiropractor, but after the election Caouette made it plain that the party would now need a French accent. "Bob is the leader and I am the co-leader," he said. "When Bob becomes Prime Minister, I will become co-Prime Minister...