Word: downrightness
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...TIME expresses surprise that Senator Barry Goldwater is beginning to show some signs of strain [May 15]. It is only natural that a man subjected to so much misinterpretation, misquotation and downright smear attacks should become irritable. We are not dismayed by the fact that the hoopla of a campaign is making our candidate irritable. The qualification for President is not the ability to slap backs or wear funny hats. The qualifications are honesty, integrity and loyalty. Goldwater has these qualifications...
Flight from Ashiya. There's something about a soldier. In the movies, there's usually something sappy about a soldier. In this film, worse yet, there's something downright phony about the men of the Air Rescue Service...
...projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer...
...complained. "It's my concentration; I can't seem to keep my mind on the game." Or maybe it was nerves: on doctor's orders, Palmer had quit smoking, gained 8 Ibs., and felt like climbing the walls. Whatever it was, it was downright embarrassing. Here he was at the Masters, a tournament he had already won three times before, and everyone's choice was Jack Nicklaus. Worse yet, some people rudely suggested that Arnie, at 34, was over the hill. "Palmer?" sneered a fellow...
...Manhattan from the suburbs for some time to come: New York City is notoriously loath to permit ex-addicts the "cabaret card" they need to perform in its nightclubs. But the welcome Chet won was as enthusiastic as it was deserved. He looked pained when he played and downright wounded when he sang, but his music had a bright, aggressive gusto to it that made better jazz than the music his fans remembered. Having marinated his art in misery, he seemed at last on a better road than the one he lost...