Word: downrightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Golden Silence. For the Eisenhower professionals and advance men, Ike's silence had long since become downright embarrassing. One good reason: the Republican National Committee will meet in San Francisco in mid-January. Without a sign from Paris, Ike-minded delegates run the risk that Bob Taft's forces will storm the meeting and capture the G.O.P. convention machinery...
...more conventional first, Conrad Aiken examines the various peculiarities of Faulkner's writing as semi-deliberate technical devices that may be judged in terms of their effect on the reader. He maintains, to begin: "Mr. Faulkner's style, though often brilliant and always interesting, is all too frequently downright bad." After quoting several horrible examples he complains of the "overelaborate sentence structure"; this complaint, by the way, is in a column of type consisting of five of his own sentences, of median length 67 words--par in any company. But he goes on to develope the positive thesis that Faulkner...
...which the young conductor solved adequately. He ignored some of the details--thus sparing the audience from the excessive chromatics in melody and harmony which can make the music tedious--and gave a broad, sweeping rendition, powerfully conceived and delivered. However, this de-emphasis of detail sank to downright sloppiness in the second movement. Intonation was foul, pick-ups inaccurate, and the melodic line sounded jerky...
...President was downright angry when he authorized the interment in Arlington of American Indian Sergeant John Rice, refused burial...
...uneasy moments at the start, when Ben Graner gushes about "the daring man they said would never come back alive" and how he "threw himself at the mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often...