Word: downrightness
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...Christian Science Monitor and the Baltimore Sunpapers. But most publications did brace themselves to review the book, and attacks were vehement. The Providence Journal was tempted, but resisted: "After wading along with a kind of fascinated horror through 140,000 words, most readers will probably become bored . . . at times downright sickened . . ." The New York World Telegram's Leslie Hanscom fumed that "there were moments . . . when my whole instinct was to land a Babbitt's righteous punch on the super-civilized nose of the author . . . The novel has a tone which says that, if you cannot swallow its exquisitely...
Pointing to the U.S.'s bright economic future, President Harry Truman used to talk headily of a $440 billion gross national product by 1960, but the U.S. economy's actual growth under Truman's successor has made that rosy forecast seem downright conservative. Last week, in a frankly political speech to a Republican rally in Chicago, President Dwight Eisenhower brandished some economic facts that might turn out to be bigger bipartisan news to the people of the U.S. than all the week's campaign speeches put together. In the third quarter of 1958, said Ike, gross...
...Cloud Five about it, but isn't it possible to have your fancy caught for a moment by a man who annually can add $1 million and 3,000 employees to his company, even though his management policy would be downright boring to trustbusters and muckrakers...
Lives there a boss who would fire a nubile, decorative (36-23-36) female assistant simply because she so resembles Cinemorsel Kim Novak that it is downright distracting? Answer...
...sense is "Memory of A Morning After" a perfect story, in the J. Donald Adams sense. The opening scene in an Automat seems wholely unnecessary, if not downright impossible because Tillich introduces you to strangers whom, it later develops, Louis knows very well--and so it could hardly be the morning-after reminiscence. And a few annoying lapses into nicely written stream-of-consciousness, or whatever they're calling it these days, gives Louis credit for an imagination he doesn't have. And in relating a macabre story of a friend, Vera, the girl, says "he grinned and wandered...