Word: downright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read Ernest Hemingway's 472-page novel about the Spanish Civil War. Frankenheimer's request helps explain why the show was a disappointment. It reflected a reverence for Papa Hemingway's prose, an unfortunate reliance on words, phrases and tricks of speech that were downright embarrassing heard out loud on TV. Examples : the stilted, literally translated phraseology that Hemingway used to suggest Spanish ("What passes with you?" "How are you called?") and the mountainside love scene ("Oh, I die each time. Do you not die?" "No. Almost. But did you feel the earth move...
...trouble is that Author Grossman's hero is more ridiculous than his victims, and the social vices he flays seem almost attractive compared to the empty reaches of his own sick soul. But Grossman, in spite of long stretches of overwriting and more than a trace of downright vulgarity, clearly has talent, wit and a savage satirical bite...
...look carried over to the postconference briefing session with newsmen. Where Knowland had often been barely able to hide his distaste for key parts of the Eisenhower program, the new leaders seemed downright enthusiastic. Said Charlie Halleck: "We were all impressed with the attainability of a balanced budget without sacrifice or injury to essential programs of Government. If we can hold the line on this program, it means not only will we have a good economic year but that the cost of living can be stabilized and held down." Added Everett Dirksen, signaling a new day in the relationships between...
Premiere of an ambitious, if not downright cluttered, series of seminars exploring, in Socratic fashion, the fundamental principles and assumptions of the Western world; each week there will be 48 thinkers on hand, or about 40 more than Socrates was able to handle at a time...
...estate business in booming Sarasota, Fla. (pop. 45,000), he quickly established a reputation for being a damyankee with the loudest mouth around. What Hiss found to shout about was the school building program. Says he: "When I got the facts I went wild. Some of the schools were downright unsanitary. The rest rooms were so bad the kids wouldn't even go to the bathroom. And the curriculum was just as bad." In 1953 a friend jokingly challenged him to run for the school board. A self-styled Renaissance man who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss...