Word: downrightness
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...possible for us to disagree in the framework of not charging each other with bad faith." Kennedy was referring to his conversations with India's visiting Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, 72, and he was perfectly right. In four days of talks last week, the two leaders became downright friendly-even though they disagreed on many things...
...criteria for judging stereo cartridges were sound quality and treatment of records. A number of eartridges sound good; a shockingly larger number sound downright bad. One of the most reliable performers in the lower price range for magnetic pickups is the PICKERING 380--C. It has a smooth quality which many people prefer, and, at $29.95, it is a best buy. The afore-mentioned GRADO and ADC models are still better performers and exhibit astounding high precision in craftmanship...
...conceived, the story has dramatic force and psychological acuity. As realized, the film shows a distressing tendency to candy its corpses, and the climax is a mere placebo. Hayes's scene writing is often crude, and Phil (The Secret Way) Karlson's direction is sometimes downright amateur. He repeatedly misplaces his camera and clumsily misdirects his actors. He cannot rattle Actor March, who after a career of 33 years and 65 films stands almost without rival as a creative cinemactor. But the director thoroughly demoralizes Actor Gazzara-at best a humorless performer, he seems in this role...
...Republican Alexander Wiley, observed: "This matter of foreign aid will have to be resold to the American people." Oregon's Wayne Morse put it more bluntly: "I don't think the American economy can stand this program." And Vermont's Republican George Aiken was downright unkind: "I see no sign that they [State Department officials] are particularly qualified to handle huge sums of money. In fact, I would say they are pretty thoroughly demoralized down at State right...
...practice of "squeeze" and bribery. Under the pressure of famine, Alsop concludes, the vaunted discipline is cracking. Cadres are feeding themselves while their subordinates starve. The result is a crisis in public morale. Reports Alsop: "In 1959, not one [refugee] charged any dishonesty to the Communist cadres. [They] were downright astonished by the suggestion that the cadres might use their authority to supplement thair rations illegally. 'They live as we live ..." This time, in sharp contrast, not a single refugee, whether from town or country, failed to charge the cadres with habitual pilfering." Communist cadres were the only...