Word: downrightness
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...reputation trashed in the past few months but also depleted his fortune trying to defend it. Now, although he was cleared by a jury of his peers, a huge segment of the American public--most of it white--remains incredulous about the not-guilty verdict he received and downright hostile to his attempts to re-enter society. Nonetheless, O.J. Simpson is a free man. He wants his good name back. And he wants his children returned...
...position of intellectual standard-bearer for millions of people. For the university whose professors appear everywhere from "Nova" to "Ann Landers" to provide the same honors to a murderer as to her victim is not only an insult to the family and friends of Trang Ho, it is downright irresponsible. It perpetuates the message that anything is forgivable, so long as you yourself are a victim...
Timothy Leary is not going gentle into the good night; he's going downright cheerfully. The puckish former Harvard psychologist and lsd fan has inoperable prostate cancer and told the L.A. Times he was thrilled when he found out: "How you die is the most important thing you ever do. I've been waiting for this for years...
...PULLING THE FUSE ON CULTURE'' IS A brilliant case for continued funding of the arts agencies-and more funding, not less. It passionately spells out the incredible shortsightedness and downright stupidity of those who oppose them. JONATHAN BOLT New York City
...would be downright irrational to begin this catalog of the Senate's follies with anyone other than Bob Packwood. The fragile bottom of Packwood's political career has entirely dropped out with new allegations of indiscretions committed against a 17-year-old intern. We know, she looked...