Word: downrightness
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...MOST CITIES, people go to baseball games to see power, not precision. It wasn't exciting to watch shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. earn a record .996 fielding percentage with only three errors in 1990. Nope. Not exciting. But watching Ripken and the Orioles play all season can be downright poetic. Scoff, cite statistics about "better" teams until you're blue in the face. You're probably right. Baltimore's record in recent years has been dismal...
These explanations are at best incomplete, and more likely downright disingenuous. The hymietown remark is a handy soundbits for Jewish antagonism toward Jackson, but the problem runs much deeper than that...
...about the political nature of Chomsky's talk, not about who brought him and why. As a general member of the SAC, I have repeatedly advocated the inclusion of the Society of Arab Students on the Foundation. I resent Counter and Reid's insinuation, which is patently false and downright offensive...
...superior to whites, describing them as "pathological," "dirty" and "dastardly devilish folks" (Time, August 26, 1991), as mere legitimate "political beliefs"? Do Counter and Reid not share The Crimson's "hostilities" toward hateful bigots? I would hope that Counter and Reid find such comments not merely "distasteful" but also downright abhorrent. If they do not, I would suggest a different line of work...
Flexible he is. In fact, the former California governor who is now doggedly nipping at the heels of Bill Clinton, frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been called downright elastic...