Word: downrightness
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Conductor William Steinberg is a threat to American musical tradition. For one thing, he is downright chummy with his Pittsburgh Symphony musicians. For another, he blatantly delights in performing "the music nobody wants to play, nobody wants to conduct and nobody wants to hear." The traditional image of the success ful symphony conductor is a shaggy-haired despot who rules with an iron fist and remains disdainfully aloof at all times. But Steinberg treats his musicians with courtesy and respect, regales them with a rich sense of humor, rides in the bus with them on tour, and preaches such heresies...
...Viennese weakness for whipped cream, mountains of it, wherever possible. After a connubial kiss on page 20-"Bending over and with his hand cupped like a trowel he lifted her chin"-Jarrett's hand more often resembles a shovel. His amatory adventures are mawkish, his professional exploits downright unbelievable: before the book's end he has even manned a machine gun to help fight off the Heimwehr...
...mile Solitude course is one of Europe's hairiest: the road twists through four tortuous hairpins, uncurling finally into a long "straightaway" that is an assortment of dips, hills and fast curves that are taken at upwards of 150 m.p.h. But last week Solitude was downright dangerous. A cloudburst turned the asphalt slick as ice; and it was still pouring dime-sized drops when 18 Formula I cars roared away from the grid, roostertails of spray streaming in their wake...
...downright pity to see great Americans like Romney, Ike and Dirksen refuse to speak against Barry. Instead of doing what they know is morally right, they jump on Barry's bandwagon for personal rewards. As a Democrat, I congratulate Scranton and Lodge for giving Goldwater a fight...
...relation to the wild land. What Ike McCaslin learns is that he can have peace only at the price of renouncing his claim to his father's slave-won, sharecropper-run plantation, "founded upon injustice and erected by ruthless rapacity and carried on even yet with at times downright savagery not only to the human beings but the valuable animals too." But after this his wife rejects him, and Ike thereby loses the right to found a family of his own. The price of reconciliation is terribly high, Faulkner says-and even then it may not be enough...