Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally issued, the President's directive had a desperate tone about it, with its "buy American" restrictions running counter to the longstanding Administration goal of freer world trade. The pinchy, protectionist mood of the directive made it plain that the balance-of-payments deficit is one of the gravest problems facing the U.S. and its new President. It would be a body blow to the free world if the U.S. tried to solve the problem by slashing foreign aid or by retreating to protectionism after a decade of heartening progress toward freer trade. To avoid those paths...
...elaborate a banality, Author Spencer tells a suspenseful story, knowledgeably confronts and synthesizes two foreign viewpoints, and gives dignity to a love story that could very easily have become a tearjerker. Margaret Johnson is a Southern woman at the age when most facts of life have become more plain than attractive. Her husband is comfortably well off, her figure is still good, and she is on vacation in Italy with Clara, her 26-year-old daughter. Because of a childhood head injury, Clara has the mentality of a child of ten. The love between mother and daughter is surely suggested...
...legal in the U.S. to bury the dead, unembalmed, in a plain pine box (though a licensed funeral director must be present), but according to the Department of Commerce an estimated $1.5 billion was spent on burials in the U.S. in 1959, or about $907.83 per death. Writes Jubilee: "Our ancestors lived with death and feared it; we have funeral directors instead, and neither know death nor theoretically fear it. It seems, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, to be something you do with money...
...respectability in an awful welfare-state township, pray to the Virgin to be relieved of their childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales in this collection-has honest intentions: to make vivid the author's conviction that the face...
...longed to be a performer, perhaps a violinist. Later her interest switched to musicology. Living in Germany at the turn of the century, she became music editor of the American paper then published in Berlin. When she returned to the States, she served as music editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer while studying for her M.A. at Western Reserve University...