Word: downrightness
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Coke Stevenson, back in Austin, had established himself as a reasonable peacemaker. He did not seem much worried over the coming struggle for control of the Party in Texas. Had he enjoyed his trip? Yes-all but the Washington newsmen, some of whom were downright "unscrupulous." One had even asked Coke Stevenson, to his face, if he intended to vote the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. The Governor had just ignored...
...ever strike you how ridiculous is the attitude of many whites toward color? Take the situation here. It's a downright disgrace to be white. I mean that literally. I have seen folks come here with gleaming white skins and they are in such a hurry to acquire color they lie about in the sun for hours. And, ironical as it is to a Negro, the darker they are the higher they stand in the summer-resort social scale...
State's tireless critics have had three longstanding complaints. The Department, they said, was: 1) haughtily indifferent to what the public thought; 2) so inefficiently organized that high officials kept tripping over one another's feet; 3) downright reactionary...
...play is one of Saroyan's simplest, even though the third act centers around a live man in a casket. Saroyan is going classic: he introduces clowns in the Elizabethan manner and their lines are downright Shakespearean, especially in their tortuous humor. He also uses the device, familiar to students of early drama, of punning in the choice of names for his characters. The true Saroyan touch appears here in the simple revelation that the five characters named Hughman (five Josephs, one Mary, one Ernest, and one August) are not related. In fact, none of them even knew...
...touches that evoke delighted recognitions. And though lightly handled, Sally and Bill are pretty convincing people. Much of the comedy comes out of the piquant conflict of their own temperaments-out of Sally's young need to be dramatic and Bill's grown-up insistence on being downright. Their easy, sprightly, sometimes funny talk stays in character, is never primed with gags...