Word: downrightness
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...rationale for his rambling discursive style is compelling, but at the end one finds it has failed him. Personal "testimony" or telling one's story is a crucial and restoring activity that Cox feels has degenerated in our culture. Bearing witness to one's own experience can be downright healthily subversive, he argues, since it reasserts the value and power of unique, individual expression over and against the manipulated and prepackaged garbage the commercial culture foists on us. All this is profoundly true. Cox points to the spiritual autobiography of Augustine and to the journals of Kierkegaard as examples...
...wind that blew across the freshman soccer field yesterday as the visitors from Brown shut out the freshman booters, 2-0, in a game that bordered on being downright dirty...
...long instrumental sections that work so well in concert don't all come off--"You Need a Man" gets downright boring. And Messina sings more in this than he did in either of their first two albums. On the whole, though, Full Sail looks and sounds incredibly like their previous work. The same two handsome faces smile on the cover; inside, the songs are comfortably familiar. Listening casually, you may not remember which record you are playing...
...while exploring controversies ranging from the end of the sexual double standard to author Jessica Mitford's grim refusal to be fingerprinted as a teacher at San Jose State. Thinking nothing of interrupting a guest, Snyder plays a merciless but even-handed devil's advocate. At times, he is downright impolite...
...West offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall view of such things as a housemaid and F.D.R., in turn, discovering House Guest Winston Churchill's proclivity for stomping around his rooms, chomping his cigar, stark naked. West recalls Harry Truman's unreconstructed Southern mother's downright refusal to sleep in Lincoln's bed. Lyndon Johnson's specially installed, multinozzled, Texas-strength shower nearly knocked the newly elected Nixon clear out of the bathroom...