Word: downrightness
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...sort of hearty comedy that rolls 'em in the aisles, but a Deep Freeze mixture of the sardonic and the downright mean. Dead Man in the Silver Market* is ostensibly an autobiographical treatise on what happens to patriotic ardor when it becomes decadent and jingo. But it reads more like a sharp essay by a man who has no country to be patriotic about...
Your May 18 story on the Tongay case vividly illustrates the violent force of one man's ambition. Tongay is no father, but a hardened man, driven by a personal aspiration and downright selfishness, who tried desperately to make precision machines out of his two scrawny but rugged youngsters...
...pledge is exacted at all should it not come from the profession, as in the case of physicians, and not from a body of politicians? Is it not a tragic farce that the most conscientious profession should get on its knees and swear to the least conscientious (outside of downright racketeers of course) that its members will be good boys and girls and will not loaf on the job? At least teachers do not dine on $11.25 meals, charging them to the tax payer and do not vote themselves tax free raises and expense funds. Is a law constitutional which...
...which combine the two aims admirably, such as the one on Eliot House which in a smooth, choicely worded style captures the House's spirit as well as naming names and infinitum. In general, though, its prose is little more than pedestrian and, in the lead article's case, downright inadequate and dull; neither atmosphere nor details come through well...
...took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women "are pretty, they're Mexicans. If they look like horses, they're Texans . . ." Texas cowboys can't even ride horses; on the last U.S. equestrian Olympic team, the "members came from Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...