Word: downright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrence is one of some 15 alumni who have written to the "Alumni Bulletin" in recent months protesting the "downright shabby, shoddy, and shameful" state of Memorial Hall at the present time. "Fashions in architecture come and go," wrote Gordon Allen '98 in one of these letters, "but neglect of historic buildings, and this is one, is not to be condoned in a great university...
...hard not to be a bore about boredom. In Russia, it may be downright dangerous. This can be deduced from the sad experience of Ilya Ehrenburg, who normally leads a full, rich, happy life in the Soviet Union, with a luxurious apartment in Moscow, a dacha in the country, a villa in the south, a talented wife, and a rag-taggle of pedigreed dogs. But in his latest novel, published in Russia last year, Ehrenburg let on that life is a bit of a bore and wondered whether it is worth living at all. Whereupon his fellow workers in literature...
...city problem, and directs its efforts to a noticeable extent at educating rather than parking its students. The city officials, who suggest that the Square is occasionally congested, feel that the University really ought to consider students' transportation along with their matriculation. Sullivan claims that the University is downright uncooperative in this respect...
...Gunther's chief qualities is his tourist's knack for relating the far-off to the familiar. Thus, the muffled women of Tangier are like "wads of Kleenex," while some native chiefs remind him of Chicago ward heelers. Often he exaggerates and occasionally he is downright naive, but when it comes to picturesque details, Reporter Gunther has them all. "Giraffes," he reports from East Africa, "intertwine their necks when making love." And he is equally informative on human marriage customs...
...book clears up the Communist meaning of hooliganism and offers an engaging illustration (see cut), but the reader might still wish to know how an Irish patronymic became the eponym for such an apparently large group of Soviet scofflaws, uncultured types and downright gangsters. Its derivation may be traced to Marx's class-conscious habit of referring to his working-class critics as "Lumpenproletariat, scum, sweepings...