Word: downrightness
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...world. The total and instant access to bad as well as good news of U.S. space shots underscored the openness of American society. Hundreds of millions followed the suspsnse story on television, radio and in the press. Even sophisticates who have become ostentatiously blasé about space?if not downright hostile?succumbed. ."I watched the idiot box," wrote Columnist Max Lerner, "as if, by sheer will, I could mesmerize the TV reporter into telling us that all was well in the best of all possible spaceships, on the best of all possible moon probes. I couldn't and he didn...
...Moscow's right to intervene in other countries to defend "Socialism," is a pure reflection of Leninist thought. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, far from accepting any idea of Lenin's sainthood, weighed in with a condemnation of him (see RELIGION). The Chinese line has been downright blasphemous. It was on the eve of Lenin's birthday ten years ago that Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag, in an editorial entitled "Long Live Leninism," fired the first shot in the Sino-Soviet conflict by challenging Moscow's claim to be the only true interpreter...
...This attitude distinguishes him from what Political Analyst Richard Scammon has dubbed the "uptight liberal" who insists on purity of doctrine, forgets that politics is the business of solving problems, and eats soul food even though he does not like it. By this standard, Moynihan qualifies as a downright loose liberal. He is loose in ideology-perfectly willing to blend liberal with conservative programs. He is loose in party affiliation, having served both Democratic and Republican administrations. He even acts loose. Amid the good gray personalities of the Nixon Administration Moynihan sports sideburns, drinks his whisky straight and displays...
...tracing the often devious routes by which money goes abroad and returns anonymously to the U.S. Robert M. Morgenthau, former U.S. Attorney for the New York area, asserts that some Swiss bank accounts are used to deposit the profits of heroin trafficking. Less often recognized is the dubious or downright illegal use of Swiss bank accounts by seemingly respectable businessmen...
Words or Shoes. In recent years, Dine's paintings have grown more lyrical-often downright erotic. A six-week sojourn in London in 1966 produced a series of blithe drawings that limned private parts of the human anatomy rather more explicitly than is customary. Within a few days of their exhibition, London police confiscated 21 of the works, but a judge later ruled that the works in themselves were not indecent...