Word: downrightness
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...results were hardly what Jimmy Hoffa could have hoped for. Campaigning hard in Wisconsin, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Hubert Humphrey unhappily and often observed that he had every bit as much right to rate Hoffa's enmity as Jack Kennedy. And many an unlisted Senator and Representative felt downright injured at being left off Hoffa's purge sheet. For it was clear and becoming clearer that having Jimmy Hoffa and his hoodlum henchmen going after a politician's head could be a pretty good way for that politician to stay in office...
...unlikely a symbol of freedom as the disappearing elephant (The Roots of Heaven), they wind up knowing that man's nature itself precludes the achievement of worldly grace. A courageous fighter himself (in the French and Free French air forces for eight years). Gary saves his writing from downright pessimism by the conviction that the idealists will always continue the struggle through some inner human compulsion...
Beauty Contest Sir: Unless a woman is downright homely, it seems all magazines and newspapers use such exaggerated terms as "beautiful, glamorous and hand some" when describ ing all females. Now TIME [Feb. i] comes up with "handsome" to describe...
Compared with most U.S. public-school systems, Hansen's English composition program is downright revolutionary. Theme writing starts as early as the second grade, and students in the two top high school tracks are required to write 24 themes a year. To help in the time-consuming grading job (chief obstacle in other cities), Hansen has arranged with Washington's militant P.T.A. for 20 college-women "lay readers." To Hansen, it is only a small beginning. By whatever pulling and prodding is necessary, stubborn Superintendent Hansen aims to give Washington's children a real education. Says...
Fiction, Fact, Fun. Thus bankrolled, CBC regards advertisers with what the U.S. networks would consider downright disdain. Instead of turning over its programing to packagers, CBC puts together its own schedule, then sells ads under the same conditions as newspapers and magazines, confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It pipes in some U.S. network shows (Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ed Sullivan Show, River boat) that blend suitably with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half...