Word: downrightness
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...released this Saturday by the National Security Archive show that the FBI began to check librarians to discover "whether a Soviet active-measures campaign had been initiated to discredit the Library Awareness Program." Implicit in this request is the FBI's belief that any criticism of its programs is downright un-American...
Like most of Ec 10, I found the joke somewhat funny. Among tenured economists, it might be downright hilarious. But the joke is entirely inappropriate for an introductory course in a department that is trying to attract more female concentrators...
...hamburger haircut does sound rather unpleasant. But advice from a hairstylist sounds downright dangerous for a Home Towner like myself. Barbers I've met always talk weather and sports; they don't proffer advise. We Home Towners take our advice from the Home Town tarot readers...
...frightening feeling--sympathy for the devil--but not nearly as scary as what Bernays does with her women characters. The women of Bernays book, Anita in particular, are just downright unlikable. Bernays skillfully makes Anita into a stereotypical militant feminist--a hippie-turned-professor who uses gender-neutral terms and "carries around a great deal of anger...
...issues touch as deep a nerve in the nation's psyche as questions surrounding capital punishment. Thus reaction across the country last week was swift and in some quarters downright horrified when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that crimes by some juveniles and mentally retarded people may be punishable by death. By a 5-to-4 vote, the high court ruled in a pair of decisions that the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" does not forbid the execution of youths who commit crimes at 16 or 17 years of age, nor does it automatically prohibit death sentences...