Word: downrightness
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...Disney's elfin helpers, demonstrate conclusively that not every rural New England community is a Peyton Place. These Galloways are wholesome folks, and their struggles to provide a sanctuary for migratory geese make the high-flying fancies of Disney's Mary Poppins seem quite worldly, if not downright cynical...
...Manpower Training and Development Act, a proposed Administration on Aging, passage of aid to Appalachia. The new bills call for vast new federal thrusts into the area of federal paternalism. In F.D.R.'s day, both undoubtedly would have been denounced as socialistic, if not part of a downright Communist scheme to undermine American private enterprise and individual initiative...
Bullish on Billions. On his current education program, the President was downright bullish: "Some say that if it's $1.2 billion this year, it will be more next year. Well, it will be." Added he, "We are taking some of that money we have been putting in tanks and bombs and putting it in minds, stomachs and hearts...
...pities culturally deprived children who are "growing up unequipped to live in an urban, primarily middle-class, world of papers and pens, books and conversations, machines and desks and time clocks." He fails to note that culturally advantaged children born into that idyllic world frequently find it unsatisfactory, or downright repulsive. And he does not reflect on what a fully automated, fully rationalized world will be like. Of course it is necessary to feed and house people before attending to the neuroses of the well-fed and well-housed. But the wide psychological impact of automation cannot be isolated from...
When McGrath first became commissioner, the custodial staffs of the state institutions regarded the psychiatrists from the Division of Legal Medicine as downright harmful intrusions into the custodial system; the "headshrinkers" reciprocated the lack of respect with comments about the "unfeeling" guards. So bitter was the feeling that McGrath's first speech as commissioner--to a group of correctional officers 48 hours after he assumed office--expressing a hope for good relations with the Division of Legal Medicine was greeted with a hostile and icy silence by his audience...