Word: downrightness
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...sseldorf banker, moseyed into London. In and out of courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany's booming postwar recovery? "When you start from zero, all progress seems imposing." His main recollection of Der Führer? Replied he: "Hitler was a betrayer and a madman...
...aware that one enters this hall of fame treading lightly. "There has been far too much talk about me," he wrote in 1951, adding: "It is not without a measure of embarrassment and dis may . . . that I note . . . that some people judge me from my books to be a downright universal intellect, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. What a tragic illusion...
Asdee, County Kerry, Ireland Sir: With regard to the statement that Khrushchev "seems not to have suffered for making a drunken spectacle of himself in Belgrade:" . . . The choice of Mr. Khrushchev as an "ambassador of good will" is downright Machiavellian on the part of the Politburo. Mr. K., in his cups or otherwise, talks and sounds remarkably like a human being. He invites everybody home with him; he cavorts like a Legionnaire at a department convention (but never really forgets the business at hand); he lowers his voice discreetly when he fears his remark may be a little off-color...
...Congress lurched toward adjournment last week, and accomplished precious little on the way. Particularly in the House was there stumbling and indecision and downright irresponsibility. The sorry show reached its climax as the House killed a badly needed national highway construction program...
Canny Clemence Dane butters her novel with surprises, ranging from the pleasant (Jacy's father turns up alive) to the downright distasteful (Olive turns out to be a nymphomaniac who believes that variety is the spice of love). But by novel's end, Jacy has found a Florister's one true love, the theater. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for July, The Flower Girls sprouts eccentrics, melodrama, theater lore, subplots, flashbacks, deaths, alarums and excursions with engaging, old-fashioned abandon. Anyone who plans to while away a lazy summer afternoon with its 629 pages would...