Word: downrightness
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Miracle Flight Diet. For one thing, says Miss Hadley, "more unusual, unexpected and downright pleasant things happen when you travel with your children than when you travel alone. Children have a way of making friends unselfconsciously both for themselves and for you. . . . People everywhere go out of their way to be helpful and kind to families with children." Traveling together also produces the treasure of the shared experience. And for those experiences you don't want to share with the small fry, Mother Hadley waxes ecstatic over Europe's part-time-child-care facilities. "Accustomed to baby sitters...
Cadence. Some cynics call King "De Lawd." He does have an upper-air way about him, and, for a man who has earned fame with speeches, his metaphors can be downright embarrassing. For Negroes, he says, "the word 'wait' has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide," giving "birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration." Only by "following the cause of tenderheartedness" can man "matriculate into the university of eternal life." Segregation is "the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality," and it "cannot be cured by the Vaseline of gradualism...
Some pieces are downright hilarious, such as Dorothy Parker's description of a torturous afternoon at the beauty parlor in "Life on a Permanent Wave." Occasional significant essays add to Vogue's intellectual stature such as Camus' "The Crisis...
...President Kennedy, popularity was the breath of life-and now he was breathing of it deeply. Texas was supposed to be a hostile political land, but for 23 hours he had been acclaimed there. Conservative Dallas was supposed to be downright dangerous, but he had just come from a warm airport welcome and along much of his motorcade route in the downtown district he had basked in waves of applause from crowds lined ten and twelve deep. What was about to happen must have been the farthest thing from his mind...
Equally important is the technical support Birdie receives. Perry Bagg's costumes are colorful and imaginative. Peter Prangnell's sets are a little bare and much too purple, but his set changes are cleverly engineered and, in several instances, downright funny. The music, under Larry Robertson's neon baton, is a bit inexpert, at least in the first act, But it picks up nicely in the second, and should improve with performances...