Word: downrightness
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...shift overseas has raised a storm of protest at home. Some businessmen use it as an argument for higher tariffs; Chambers of Commerce often consider it downright "disloyal"; unions complain that it "exports" U.S. jobs, cuts employment. David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers, says: "Expansion is legitimate, but expansion at the expense of American workers is illegitimate...
...office caste system is hardest on those newly promoted, because it forces them-and their wives-to break away from friends. A wife, says one executive, "can be downright dangerous if she insists on keeping close friendships with the wives of her husband's subordinates. Her friendships will rub off on him, color his judgment about the people under him, jeopardize...
Thousands of youngsters could ask: Why was I accepted or rejected? The decisions often seemed downright whimsical. At McLean (Va.) High School, David Stanley, 18, top boy in his class, was turned down by Swarthmore, which accepted Jerry Nelson, 16, whose grades were mediocre. At New York City's Andrew Jackson High School. Rickey Field, 18, was accepted by Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, but turned down by the University of Michigan. At New York's Riverdale Country School, James Avary, 18, applied only to Princeton. His College Board English and math aptitude scores averaged only...
...return to West German stages after a 30-year absence, Berlin-born Glamour Girl Marlene Dietrich, 55. was aware that her'reception might be chilly. Reason: during and after World War II, Grandma Marlene damned Hitler and his works so roundly that many Germans still believe she is downright anti-German. Marlene's impending return created a spate of mumbling in the West German press. She shrugged it off: "The only thing I'm really afraid of is eggs. I have a swans-down coat, and if an egg ever hits it, I don't know...
...been so close to death (pneumonia) that his body was once washed for a funeral. They lived in a tumble-down house in the Cotswolds, but mother and children-at least by Author Lee's account -never indulged in self-pity. Husbandless Mrs. Lee-erratic, forgetful, sometimes downright dotty, but forever cooking and mending for the brood-comes through as a genuine heroine. Her son has performed the feat of conveying her love, and his, without once slipping into the treacle that sons find almost impossible to avoid when they praise...