Word: downrightness
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...said to Lord Asquith . . ." and intimate tidbits that every conscientious scholar should know about the private life of literary personages ranging from Thomas Carlyle to Guy de Maupassant. Harris' obsession with and clinical description of his mistresses' vital organs could be construed as incidental diversion, if not downright annoyance...
Would the U.S. blast Moscow with nuclear weapons because a Soviet ground force nibbles at Hamburg, when the destruction of New York is the certain counterblow? Probably not, reason many Germans. And if the Russians reached the same conclusion, it would serve as a downright invitation to them to try. If the U.S. concedes unchallenged conventional superiority to the Russians, argued former Secretary of State Dean Acheson before a German-Ameri can Club meeting in Bonn last week, the Russians might be able to rack up a series of small but important "profits" in Europe, "without setting off a nuclear...
Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum or defeatist. She writes about people broken in love with the doom-laden tones of a Thomas Hardy telling of the time of the breaking of nations...
This is obviously inequitable, and downright confusing. Harvard, we all know, actually won the Mass game with its clear superiority in rushing, defense, etc., and Columbia it appears really was the victor last week against Princeton despite its one point deficiency on the scoreboard. This reliance on touchdowns, conversions, field goals and other flashy plays has created a decidedly demoralizing situation...
...cement and snarling bulldozers, a visitor at one raw campus last week felt "the kind of enthusiasm you find in an Israeli kibbutz. You want to pick up a shovel or roll up your sleeves and unpack books. It is all so unstuffy, informal and energetic that it seems downright un-English...