Word: downrightness
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...slide rule in disgust. To the austeritarian school (prevalent in Europe and some U.S. quarters), prosperity, like chivalry, is an archaic notion, something that apple sellers in the '30s expected just around the corner. And even a good many plain Americans have agreed that free enterprise, if not downright immoral, is at least impractical in Europe today. Yet Belgium, like a healthy old chain-smoker defying the anti-nicotine prophets, is both prosperous and free...
...with the way of life Christ has revealed and Christianity has established." Thus writes Rufus Jones, famed Quaker patriarch, in the introduction to his collection of essays on Christian pacifism, published last week. Few of the eleven contributors to The Church, the Gospel and War (Harper; $2) are so downright. But all of them are sure that Christians should be pacifists...
...rest of the U.S. press showed no hurry to get on the bandwagon. And Editor Edward T. Leech of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press felt downright sorry for the Man of the Hour...
...Marx did not absorb the morals of the dialectic immediately. When, at 24, he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung (a paper owned by bourgeois and written by their radical sons), he promptly ordered contributors to stop smuggling socialist propaganda into casual drama reviews; he said the practice was downright "immoral...
Though 44 years old, John Bull was also virtually new to Broadway, having been 43 years absent. On the whole, it seemed less rusty from time than the Gate seemed dusty from travel. Shaw's two-way joke about England and Ireland can get devilishly talky and even downright tedious. But certainly at its best John Butt is still impressive; whereas even at its best the Gate seems merely competent...