Word: downrightness
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...that's nothing compared to the men, who, to hear them tell it, are head over heels in love with these strong women and think smart is downright sexy...
...gash he received in a vicious prison brawl is virtually undetectable on his still boyish face, thanks to a controversial furlough that allowed him to visit a plastic surgeon. And though he initially insisted that no questions about jail be asked, he not only appears comfortable but is also downright chatty about some of his prison experiences...
Unsettlingly random in its own right, the blue streak of experience and memory that runs across the pages of this book is made downright disturbing by Harlan's refusal to anchor its happenings in the framework of an established hierarchy of truth and reality. In The Healing, bearded ladies and unicorn girls are endowed with as much credence as the subjects of her husband's anthropological research and Paul Simon's lyrics are as respectable a system for understanding the world as the logic Harlan learns at night school...
While I admire the candor of Noah D. Oppenheim '00 (Column, Apr. 3) regarding his moral issues with "Gaypril" (and his bold decision to print slang variants of "clitoris" in an article decrying the "downright obscene"), I must disagree with his loaded assessment that "[queers] may need to accept that the biological footing of heterosexuality...cannot be overcome...
...proposed ban are inadequate. He claims that "the general trend of society would support [a ban]." Has Harvard suddenly become a place that blindly follows the dictates of society? He also cites students' calls to purchase more exercise equipment as a reason to initiate a ban--this is downright silly. Suddenly, we have to trade acquiring more treadmills at the MAC for our personal freedoms? Eric Nelson's observation that we are on our way to adulthood is a good one, and I sincerely hope that he maintains his fight against such condescending whims of the administration. MICHELLE L. MURPHY...