Word: downrightness
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Also, I knew the Baptist church tower, theme of the artist's Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night. That church tower was a masterpiece of Victorian gimcrackery. It was so downright, honestly ugly that, like George Arliss, it was positively beautiful. The sound of its bell, to paraphrase Poe, was "In the startled ear of night/ How it screamed out its affright!" I think that old tower perhaps may have had a soul, and Burchfield, like William Blake, was able to commune with such spirits...
...were getting through to him." There have been others. Interior Secretary Wally Hickel finally got to see Nixon last week. Students have had ready access to White House offices and aides since the college strikes began, and reporters have found some normally closemouthed Nixon assistants not only available but downright candid about their jobs. These are only straws in the wind, but Nixon is obviously sensitive about the charge of isolation. One adviser criticized Nixon's welcome to New York City's construction workers because it would offend students sympathetic to antiwar demonstrators attacked by the hardhats. But Nixon jumped...
...roaming the sanctuaries, their importance is clouded by two facts: 1) nobody knows how much the Communists had stashed away to begin with; 2) as yet, the allies have managed to search only 5% of the 7,000 sq. mi. of borderlands. In some cases, the numbers are downright misleading. Items...
...polls. "Despite all the publicity for him," a leading Tory complains, "he still doesn't get across, and he won't get anywhere until he learns to join the human race." Wilson, 54, may strike many Britons as occasionally pompous, but Heath too often comes across as downright prissy; he nearly blushed purple the other day when two twentyish birds stopped him on a street to ask what he intended to do about the exorbitant price of "panty tights." His hobbies are playing classics on the organ, and sailing a sleek racing yacht...
...surpassed the record for heart-transplant survival set by Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, who lived for 594 days after his operation. Although Blaiberg was depicted as being hale and hearty as a Rotarian greeter, a recent book by his widow reveals that he was miserably uncomfortable, if not downright ill during most of his life with his new heart. Russell, who at week's end had survived 603 days, appears to be in far better shape than Blaiberg...