Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eckstine, a modest, soft-spoken man offstage, lives quietly, when autograph hounds let him, with his wife June and his collie "Crooner," in uptown Manhattan. His one recreation is golf. He started playing last year, now often goes direct to the course from his last show at 4 a.m. He is already shooting around 85. One reason: he takes his own professional with him, even on trips...
Beatrice d'Este was 16 when the future Duke of Milan married her (in 1491), and probably not much older when Leonardo da Vinci painted her portrait for the Duke, his patron. Innocent, fresh and direct, the portrait was like a summing up of everything that the complex, secretive, worldly-wise Old Master himself was not. It made a highlight in the comprehensive show of Leonardo and his circle at Los Angeles County Museum last week...
...direct testimony went on that afternoon and most of the next day. When he had concluded he had covered a great part of his life and had reiterated his accusation: that Hiss had willingly stolen and copied Government reports for a Russian intelligence officer named Boris Bykov, and that he, Chambers, had acted as their intermediary...
When Chambers finished his direct testimony a deadly cross-examination began. Defense Attorney Stryker leaped out of his chair at the moment the prosecutor sat down and advanced on the witness like a man about to kill a wild beast with his hands. Within minutes, Chambers had coolly admitted taking "a false and perjurous" oath in getting a Government job back in 1937. From then on, hour after hour, Stryker labored hard to wreck the witness' credibility...
This reaction is in direct contrast to the undergraduate vote, which was more than two to one in favor of permitting Communists to teach, except in the social sciences. The latter tally was 724 to 520 in favor...