Word: downrightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which a direct attack by Moscow was to be directly answered by atom-bomb-packed B-36s. The effectiveness of that kind of force had not been disproved by first week setbacks in Korea. But already Louis Johnson's touted economy program was looking downright absurd. Last week, to meet the 1951 budget limitations dictated by Johnson, the Navy decommissioned the last of 14 large carrier air groups, reducing its total groups to nine...
...millions of West German moviegoers, life in the U.S. must seem rugged if not downright hazardous. Of some 78 feature-length Hollywood films scheduled for release in occupied Germany this year over half are westerns and thrillers. Last week, Washington announced a $2,500,000 deal to give the Germans some "essentially accurate information about the US" and enough high-caliber films to "reflect credit upon the culture...
Katherine Cornell's latest production has a patent leather slickness which covers a completely insubstantial play. The author, Kate O'Brien, has dipped into 16th century Spanish history for a very unintriguing story of court intrigue. She has scooped up material which is sentimental at best and sometimes downright boring. The shallowness of the characters severely limits the actors to the technical perfection of their declamatory and gushing speeches. For this the actors are well-equipped: they all have rich voices and good diction...
Since 1898, summer theaters have spread all over while others are downright chaotic. In non-Equity theaters, for instance, the actors and actresses often paint and build the scenery, cook for the company, and usher before performances. Somehow, out of the fantastically long working hours and shoestring budgets, many first-class shows emerge. Rural audiences are usually sympathetic toward the barnstormers, and often enjoy what Broadway audiences would consider unpolished...
Probable Opinion. The sciences, Standen continues, range from "fairly good through mediocre to downright bad." Physics is "science at its best," and much of chemistry ("an art [often] related to cooking, instead of a true science") passes muster. But even these have serious contradictions. They make claims to the discovery of immutable truths, and yet scoff at all philosophical absolutes. Actually, their truth is not truth at all, but "a body of well-supported probable opinion only, and its ideas may be exploded at any time...