Word: downrightness
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...Harvard lacrosse season, which began with hopes for a spot in the nation's top ten and then became a disappointment with last week's loss to lowly Yale, slid toward downright disaster Saturday when Princeton thrashed the stickmen...
...largest increase in almost two years, to a record $1.486 trillion. But corporate profits, one of the most important indicators of all, were mixed. Overall they were strong, but in contrast to last year, when huge profit gains were almost universal throughout American industry, there were enough lackluster and downright poor reports to make the quarter less than cause for applause in the trading pits...
...Wyatt Emmerich's April 11th review of Richard Dawkins's book, The Selfish Gene, is a masterpiece, even for The Crimson, of inaccuracy, purposeful misinterpretation, and downright untruth. Emmerich shows a profound ignorance of the book, evolutionary theory in general, and the aims and structures of the "sociobiological" camp...
...into place for the mission's chief planner (Robert Duvall, being excellent again), and how this entirely reasonable fellow begins to fall under the spell of lucky chance. He is in effect the audience's surrogate. Once all his questions have been answered, it seems churlish, indeed downright ungrateful, not to go along with him and the plot he is spinning...
...Wind to Shake the World is neither great literature nor incisive social commentary. Allen is a journalist, not a novelist, and his style makes this obvious. His prose moves fitfully at best, is downright turgid at worst, and is obviously better suited to the front page of a New England town newspaper than the inside of a classy $10 hard-back. Always the reporter, he is long on detail and short on interpretation. An endless stream of names, places, death tolls and other gruesome details flashes past, making the book itself a hurricane of facts that often leaves the reader...