Word: plain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hill person, but his face is pretty convincingly weathered. In the pictures he holds a gee gaw whimmy-diddle or a flipper-dinger, and in inset photos he shows how to use them. The rest of the toys are things like bull roarer, idiot sticks, ball tossers, and plain old cornshuck dolls. Each one of them is "A genuine" item or "a rare authentic artifact." Despite extensive instructions on the back, it's very hard to say just what these toys...
...from squarely confronting a few vexing moral issues. "Since two years ago we have established a structure" for issues made vexing by Harvard's stock holdings, he explained. "I have not been directly involved in that." But for all his modest pretense of non-involvement, Bok made it plain that his concern for Angola and his insights into its future are as searching and as profound today as they were in 1972. Angola's future, he explained, is "clearly in a state of flux...
...passion for an instant purgative that often seizes hopelessly overburdened civilizations. No one in history ever had a better pulpit. While standing on the germ-free lunar surface, Rice departs from his scheduled extravehicular activity to speak directly to TV viewers round the world. "I have seen the earth plain," says the commander. Then instead of listening to the usual astronautical cliches and pro forma prayer, tens of millions hear Rice rage against purposelessness, corruption, pollution and "the murderous vanity that hurls us into space." Before NASA cuts him off, he has called for a Second American Revolution...
...think the stroke Bob [Haldeman] has with him is in the confrontation to say, "Jeb, you know that just plain isn't so," and just stare him down on some of this stuff and it is a golden opportunity to do this ... I am sure he will rationalize himself into a fable that hangs together. But if he knows that you are going to righteously and indignantly deny...
NONFICTION 1-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (1) 2-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 3-Times to Remember, Kennedy (3) 4-Management, Drucker (4) 5-Working, Terkel (9) 6-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (5) 7-Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie 8-Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke (8) 9-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read 10-The Secret Life of Plants, Tompkins & Bird...