Word: downrightness
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...crisis 18 months ago. In a country where lifetime employment has long been the accepted rule, the jobless rate has inched up to 2%. Now the government is moving hesitantly to reflate, though the official goal is only a 4.3% boost in real G.N.P. for the year-downright meager by Japanese standards...
...Washington moved last week to meet Moscow's oft-repeated demands for a resumption of the Geneva talks, Pravda 's critique of Kissinger seemed downright restrained in the face of such a clear bonanza for the Russians. At week's end, however, the Soviet press agency Tass cited charges published in some Arab newspapers that the CIA was involved in the assassination of Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Since quoting from the foreign press is a common Soviet way of expressing official views, the repetition of this patently absurd accusation was a measure of how far the Kremlin...
Skinner's deterministic philosophy of radical behaviorism allows no room for free will, and that's downright threatening to most of us who adhere to the notion of an inner experience of choice. He insists that behavior is controlled by one's environment, particularly by, "contingencies of reinforcement" that bring about more of one kind of behavior and less of another. For Skinner, the autonomy of inner man is a myth. "There is no place," he writes, "in the scientific position for a self as a true originator or initiator of action." He sees emotion as a matter...
...most of his professional life Orwell sought to bring about that improvement. His weapons were not formidable. As Lionel Trilling observes, Orwell's pieces excel "by reason of the very plainness of his mind, his simple ability to look at things in a downright undeceived way ... he is not a genius-what a relief! What an encouragement. For he communicates to us the sense that what he has done, any one of us could...
...lauded sisters in the badlands remote from magical Cantabrigia. We get smarter and more self assured and "Cliffie" or every year, so that by the time we are ready to graduate, words like oppression and sexism, feminism and sisterhood sound a little overstated, or a little irrelevant, or just downright ridiculous...