Word: downrightness
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...Joseph Stalin Man of the Year, TIME not only hit the nail on the head, but sunk a spike in one blow. Stalin stands for the Russian people, for what they are and for all they have done, the way they've done it, their guts, patriotism and downright loyalty to him as a leader in a country at war. The Germans fight like devils, but the Russian people, all of them, are fighting like all hell and their fight is in the name of Stalin. In him has the impossible been attained-for a second time. Whether...
...Does It. Henry Morgenthau is no coward: it has taken a brave man to hold his job for nine years. In that time he has been subjected to enough criticism, needling and downright insults to drive an ordinary man to distraction. He cannot get along with Congress. Most of the men he brought in to help him at the Treasury have refused to go along with his policies. He is disliked by most New Dealers (who regard him as a budget-balancer at heart) and practically all conservatives (who think his tax policies are shot through with social theory...
...perennial reception given Jack Kirkland's earthy vehicle of the poor South is a sad commentary on American audiences. Somehow, in eight years, someone should have had the downright sense to stop the flow of "adult only" and "daring presentation" publicity that has provided the abortion with packed housed. Yes, people will be dragged to see the ramshackle spectacle once, but only the degenerate or perverted could have the wide-eyed desire to go back and see two and a half hours of unadulterated country ham again...
Considering that 99.99 per cent of the collectors are men and most likely in uniform now, that jazz never sold very well anyhow, and that a collector of Jazz, unlike a Lombardo-lover or Kaye-swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden...
...young nation agreed with them. Its art was best and most beautiful in all that was most immediately useful to a rural civilization. The work of men's hands became "a common language of hand and eye," with marked divergences of idiom-the New Englander's "downright pleasure in stripped forms and beautifully finished plain surfaces," the more complex art of figurehead carving, the decorative designs of the Pennsylvania Germans which (derived from the manuscript paintings of medieval monasteries) gave expression to "all the great ceremonial relationships...