Word: downrightness
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...tales about United Nations plots to take control of the U.S. with the connivance of the U.S. Government. Right-wing extremists claim to be conservatives, said Kuchel, but they "defile the honorable philosophy of conservatism with that claim." They also claim to be patriots, but they are "unpatriotic and downright un-American." Last week, in a Senate speech, Kuchel reported on the response: 10,000 letters, postcards and telegrams, about 8,000 approving his speech and 2,000 denouncing it. Sample denunciations: > "Who translated your recent speech from Russian into English?" - "You seem to condemn those that point out that...
...made only seven movies. None of them is a masterpiece, but the best of them (Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped) are luminous meditations on the life of man in the sight of God. In Pickpocket, a picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar, Bresson propounds a harrowing paradox: that man must sin in order to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
...Senghor Deputies, Dia said, he was only trying to head off a plot against himself that stemmed from his efforts to crack Senegal's peanut monopolists. Cried Dia: "I wanted a constitutional solution, they [Senghor's men] wanted a political one." In reply, the prosecutor sounded downright sympathetic. There were extenuating circumstances, he agreed; Dia was obviously a misguided patriot who "thought that one could not be a good Senegalese when one was against Mamadou Dia." But at week's end the court gaveled an end to courtliness. After two hours and 15 minutes of deliberation...
Unfortunately for the Big Red, Harvard pitchers are notoriously stingy with base hits. Some opposing batters have even called Crimson hurlers downright selfish. Some haven't Coach Norm Shepard will probably go with Paul Del Rossi or Dick baldi and either should be able keep the Cornell line-up under control without too much strain...
Since the school committees consist of elected officials, the first response to PBH's offer to supply undergraduate volunteer teachers was not overwhelming; in fact, one former PBH official described the response as "downright antagonistic...