Word: downrightness
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...question of acting raises the issue of courses in drama, and on this score, Harvard has done something of an about-face. Courses in the dramatic arts are not only accepted, they are downright welcome, as the official encouragement of Daniel Seltzer's experimental courses shows. The effect of this encouragement has been to leave the development of courses in drama entirely to Seltzer, a noble figure who has been trying to get Harvard to adopt courses concerned with theatre for years. If things continue at their present rate, the seed planting will no doubt some day grow small...
...heavy in a distinctly Teutonic way. But they have their own solid, unpretentious virtues: warmth and vigor that suggest Saturday night at a comfortable old Bierstube rather than a glittering ballroom. The performance by the Robert Shaw Chorale is robust, the piano of Claude Frank and Lilian Kallir downright athletic...
John Hawkins, in third position, lost his perfect record by dropping two matches Tuesday against Williams and Boston College. But he should score well today. Coach Cooney Weiland called his Tuesday showing "a downright freak...
That looks fine on nymphets, but for the woman in need of support it can be downright embarrassing. Girdle manufacturers, however, are rising to the crisis with all kinds of artful camouflage. Some are disguising the unseemly with ruffles; others propose nylon bloomers and all-in-one outfits with built-in bra and legs like Jamaica shorts. If all this seems too much, the well-dressed woman can simply take her stand against the rising hemline and resist. But she may soon find herself in a dwindling minority. Dress Designer Mainbocher speaks comfortingly of "client length," but he admits that...
...always been a country in love with the future. Americans have never quite shared the traditional notion that prying into tomorrow is suspect if not downright dangerous-the sort of feeling that made Dante consign soothsayers to the fourth chasm of the Inferno. On the contrary, the U.S. readily accepted the fact that modern science established progress as a faith and the future as an earthly Eden. Yet recently, the American passion for the future has taken a new turn. Leaving Utopians and science-fiction writers far behind, a growing number of professionals have made prophecy a serious and highly...