Word: downrightness
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Inner Resolve. In spite of Alsop's complaint, the press abroad quoted only sparingly from U.S. newspapers. While the French were scathingly critical of the Dominican intervention, the British, in general, were low-keyed in their response and often downright sympathetic. After its first harsh comment, the Times of London added: "If President Johnson has taken the deliberate risk of touching Latin American feelings on their most sensitive spot by recalling the days when Theodore Roosevelt policed the Caribbean with marines, it is presumably because American feelings too have been touched on their most sensitive spot - the prospect...
What they saw was four young chaps having a jolly good bash. In the avalanche of publicity that followed, the Beatles emerged as refreshingly relaxed, if not downright lovable, personalities. Their disarming humor (Reporter: "Why do you wear so many rings on your fingers?" Ringo: "Because I can't get them all through my nose") melted adult resistance...
...women's stockings, you know, are the things that have become strong in this country since the war," muttered one association official, understandably declining to be identified. Though 500 sento owners staged a sit-in outside the office of Tokyo's Governor Ryutaro Azuma, they seemed downright delighted the next day when he forced them to call off the strike, "for the sake of sanitation among the citizenry." The governor conceded that approval of the rate increases just possibly could be speeded up, but the important thing was clearly to get the sento owners out of their...
...stoic study of Actress Jeanne Moreau (TIME, March 5); Ben Shahn's volatile gouache of Martin Luther King (March 19); Sidney Nolan's evanescent whirl of Dancer Rudolf Nureyev (April 16). Some readers found them unusually exciting; others objected vigorously, and a few thought them downright malicious...
...fairly conservative neighbor. Sometimes he sounds downright peevish; the Federal Government, as he sees it, can do little that's right, at least in the economic field. Other times, he makes a strong case for his brand of individualism: "Nothing is so corrupting to a man as to believe it is his duty to save mankind from men. He comes to evil because he must first usurp the rights of men and finally the prerogatives of God." And occasionally he sounds a warning note worth heeding amid the euphoria of the Great Society. "I believe that once...