Word: downrightness
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...succeeds admirably within this limited intention. Lee Austin's "Truro; 1854" and Will Morgan's "The Golden Legend" are both musical and cryptically romantic, "Cryptic" would be too mild, however, to describe Douglas Freelander's "Almyra." As far as this reader is concerned, it is 16 lines of downright obscurantism...
...Associated Press prizes objective reporting of the news so highly that at times its spare, fact-packed stories are downright dull to read. Thus it was something of a surprise to 500 newsmen gathered in Atlanta last week for the annual A.P. managing editors' meeting to hear the A.P. accused not only of bias but of left-wing bias at that...
...Ryerson, Wilson's complaint seemed downright ingratitude, especially since Inland will be expanding production 20% by 1952. "The automobile industry [which buys 20% of steel's total output] has no cause for complaint," he replied. "It has had steel enough to set production record after production record. It is the steel industry that made possible all the expansion in other industries." Nevertheless, if more steel users joined Charles Wilson in needling the steelmakers, steelmen might decide they could expand faster after...
...would rather see all the world's ailurophobes pass away than think for a second of removing a single cat. Nonetheless, for all their felinophilia, they approach the cat question with fairness and restraint, setting forth their arguments in a manner that is always urbane and suave, rarely downright catty...
...millions of West German moviegoers, life in the U.S. must seem rugged if not downright hazardous. Of some 78 feature-length Hollywood films scheduled for release in occupied Germany this year over half are westerns and thrillers. Last week, Washington announced a $2,500,000 deal to give the Germans some "essentially accurate information about the US" and enough high-caliber films to "reflect credit upon the culture...