Word: downrightness
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...more conventional first, Conrad Aiken examines the various peculiarities of Faulkner's writing as semi-deliberate technical devices that may be judged in terms of their effect on the reader. He maintains, to begin: "Mr. Faulkner's style, though often brilliant and always interesting, is all too frequently downright bad." After quoting several horrible examples he complains of the "overelaborate sentence structure"; this complaint, by the way, is in a column of type consisting of five of his own sentences, of median length 67 words--par in any company. But he goes on to develope the positive thesis that Faulkner...
...which the young conductor solved adequately. He ignored some of the details--thus sparing the audience from the excessive chromatics in melody and harmony which can make the music tedious--and gave a broad, sweeping rendition, powerfully conceived and delivered. However, this de-emphasis of detail sank to downright sloppiness in the second movement. Intonation was foul, pick-ups inaccurate, and the melodic line sounded jerky...
...President was downright angry when he authorized the interment in Arlington of American Indian Sergeant John Rice, refused burial...
...uneasy moments at the start, when Ben Graner gushes about "the daring man they said would never come back alive" and how he "threw himself at the mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often...
...months, the Banking and Currency committees of the two houses had debated the subject with an air of leisureliness, skepticism and downright hostility towards the White House. In separate bills reported out last week, they agreed to give the President almost none of the increased authority he sought. They also agreed-over the protests of Administration Democrats-to take away some of the power which Congress had given him last September. When a final bill does get to the White House, instead of having a club to fight the devils of inflation, Harry Truman will have only a stick...