Word: downrightness
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...floodlighted for night play. But as its Saudi employees learn to live more like Americans, Aramco itself becomes more Saudi. In its relations with the government and 53-year-old King Saud, Aramco maintains a policy so studiously circumspect that sometimes it seems to its younger workers to be downright spineless. Often it proves bitter as gall to the American workers...
...song entitled "Flip, Flop and Fly" the line occurs "When I get lonely, I jump on the telephone." ON first hearing, this sentiment seems somewhat ridiculous, if not downright neurotic. You try to visualize someone stamping and kicking and jumping on the telephone because he is lonely. It just doesn't seem right. Then you think of substituting "at" for "on," and the line begins to take on new meaning. When you visualize a person "jumping at" the telephone, it is an easy step from there to the final explication, "When I am lonely, I jump up from where...
Himself a longtime newsman (Philadelphia Record, New York Post), Author Grafton has found no startling truths about big crime-his plot in the end becomes downright hokum-but he offers many fascinating insights: how it feels before a holdup, the psychology of crap shooting, the relaxed domesticity enjoyed by the off-duty criminal. He can also be quietly amusing, as when he compares a detective's carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what...
...more colorful colleagues, the bristle-haired Scottish microbe hunter working in a cluttered laboratory at London's St. Mary's Hospital seemed downright dull. But he was nothing if not dogged. He was 47 years old, and he had spent 20 years trying to find something to kill the microbes that cause infections in man, especially in wounds. To no avail; he found a substance in human tears that killed some germs, but not the important ones...
Last week the Berlin Philharmonic started its first U.S. tour. Its conductor: Herbert von Karajan, who was chosen to take the orchestra on the trip after Furtwangler died last fall. In its programs the Berlin Philharmonic stuck rigidly to tradition. Its selections in New York last week were downright condescending: Haydn's Symphony No. 104, Prelude and Love Death from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Beethoven's Symphony No: 5. The Berliners seemed determined to show the New World how the old classical war horses should be tamed...