Word: downrightness
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...report of the President's Commission was a huge boost for federal aiders. They cried out more loudly that the educational system was grossly inadequate from top to bottom, and that parts of it were downright rotten. They underscored what the Commission said: that democracy cannot rest on shoddy education, and that a modern state (democratic or not) cannot survive in the twentieth-century world on antique citizen training programs...
...Many Secrets. The gist of the findings was that industry could not help AEC until AEC told industry much more about the atomic energy program. AEC should modify its sweeping code of secrecy, the committee said, since in many cases it was unnecessary and downright harmful to the program. Secrecy was carried so far, the committee implied, that businessmen often did not even know how or where to get the barest information...
...American history to pick a kind of alltime, all-star list of U.S. Presidents. The results, listed last week in an article in LIFE, were a heartening commentary on the democratic electoral process. The U.S., in the opinion of the experts, had produced six great Presidents and only two downright failures...
Hyslop does not judge insects by their works; he loves them for themselves. With downright affection, he recalls attractive insects he has known. There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep...
Fighting Father Dunne (RKO Radio), a St. Louis priest (circa 1900), gets interested in newsboys who are tough and toughly used. Thanks to a disconcerting, downright embarrassing skill at cadging, badgering and sharp dealing in the interests of a good cause, he manages to found a home for them-first a ramshackle old wooden one, at last a portly new brick one. The boys, needless to say, are mischievous little devils but angels at heart. The one exception (Darryl Hickman) is ruined by the influence of his particularly villainous father (well played by Joseph Sawyer...