Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dialogue that ripens day by day into history ran its endless way last week. In Washington, statesmen spoke of law and human rights and national survival. In the South, plain citizens, newly articulate and determined, argued for human rights at 5 and 10? store lunch counters. The exchange of minds funneled through ballot boxes and sound trucks in New Hampshire, and men of political ambition raised voices at farms and factory gates in Wisconsin, while the question of one man's survival clanged through the cell bars of California's San Quentin prison and reawakened the Bible...
...Kennedy's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination. The names of notable unbeatables who had been beaten-Taft, Kefauver, Stassen-were lovingly recalled. There was a lot of big talk about stopping Kennedy in Wisconsin April 5, or if not there in West Virginia May 10. But the plain fact was that Kennedy's rivals were scared. Nobody was panicking yet, but every Democrat was operating on a yellow alert...
Plans for transforming Britain's betrothed Princess Margaret into plain Mrs. Antony Armstrong-Jones jelled in London. The wedding, to be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster Abbey on May 6, will be one of the most lavish ever held in England. The BBC pushed on confidently with preparations for a live telecast of the ceremony...
...Waterloo University College produced Robert Hett, 32, who quit work in a rubber company to study history, and will now go to Cornell. Shelby Faye Lewis, 19, of Louisiana's Southern University, is a pretty Negro coed and one of seven children of a barber in Plain Dealing, La. (pop. 1,321). She will study political science at the University of Illinois, hopes to "improve our people's knowledge of their country." And there are hundreds more, from a former Hungarian freedom fighter at Illinois' Monmouth College, who could barely speak English three years...
...denied it. Though half-blinded by cataracts in both eyes toward the end of his career, he was concerned more than ever with the most evanescent effects in nature. The swift slashings of the abstract expressionists shut out what Monet so reverently embraced. Last week's exhibition made plain-as the Modern had perhaps not intended-that Monet has no heir...