Word: downrightness
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...quotation also describes the hostility Ford's bid to lead House Democrats provoked from backward-looking members of the older generation of black activists and politicians, including some of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. The sheer meanness - and downright stupidity - of the vituperation is an indication of the intellectual bankruptcy of what currently passes for black leadership. Ford is too shrewd to talk openly about the insults himself, but they obviously stung him. Not content to criticize Ford on the legitimate grounds of his callowness and lack of legislative accomplishments, some dredged up his "high yellow" skin color...
...later became an analyst at PaineWebber but made his name at Salomon pounding the table for WorldCom in the mid-'90s, with the stock trading in the teens. As it rose to its high near $62 in 1999, so did Grubman's reputation, and his relationship with Ebbers got downright cozy--Grubman even attended Ebbers' wedding that year. "Grubman was solicitous, fawning, like a groupie," says a source close to the WorldCom board. "This was not a natural friendship." And as Grubman's star rose with Ebbers', so has it fallen just as quickly. --With reporting by Julie Rawe/New York
...when Big Bad Larry expressed concern over anti-Semitism at elite universities earlier this year. And, while leaving the final decision up to the English department, Summers is said to have objected to Paulin’s selection in private conversations with faculty, who supposedly found these conversations downright frigid...
...Outside it is winter. But here it is so hot.” And not just hot, mind you. Berlin’s infamous Kit Kat Klub, where much of Cabaret takes place, is also wild, raw and at times downright raunchy. It’s a place where women proposition men, and boys do too, where life tastes delicious and where wives and worries are left at home. Outside, however, Germany sits partially trembling and partially blind on the eve of Nazism. Ultimately, the political situation renders the inside less lascivious and more escapist; the Kit Kat Klub transforms...
...happen to oppose abortion. The DNC apparently believes that Democrats who support abortion would be offended by the presence of a link to Democrats For Life—even though the group identifies itself as a collection of Democrats. This lack of tolerance for, and in some cases downright hostility towards, Democrats who oppose abortion played a major role in the resounding losses suffered by the Democratic party last week—and in particular, the loss of Democratic control of the United States Senate...