Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH SERIOUSNESS. Matthew Arnold, you remember, said the greatest art displayed a High Seriousness. That's not to exclude the serious masquerading as comic, or even the outright Slapstick farcical comic. It may not be the greatest art, Arnold said, but we-all-love-a-good-joke-hey-boys...
...TEACH us to be honest, but what we see around us is a world afraid of the truth--a culture characterized by hypocrisy, evasion, distortion, and outright lies. We have long since grown accustomed to such dishonesty from the mass media and from the elected officials who rule our nation. This past year the affliction seems to have spread even to the highest reaches of our own university. Indeed, almost as often as our brothers at Columbia, we have had occasion to recall the late Upton Sinclair's descripiton of the modern college president as "the most universal faker...
...outmoded civil and criminal codes. Particularly confusing is a dual legal system inherited from the French. One group of laws was created for the central part of the country, which was administered by the Viet emperor; other laws were written for Cochin China in the south, which was an outright colony controlled by the French governor. The differing legal standards are still applied today. Fornication, for example, was made a crime in central Viet Nam, reflecting strict Confucian traditions. No such statutes are in effect in the sophisticated south, where most of the French lived. Insulting the dignity...
Rendering unto Moscow. The most telling clue lies not in what the Russians did bring with them to Czechoslovakia but what they did not: a new government. Had the political decision to bring Dubcek under control or to oust him outright been in readiness long, the Soviets would have followed up their efficient military takeover with an equally efficient installation of a ruling order more to their liking. Instead, they placed the country in a state of suspended political animation, letting a surrounded Parliament continue to meet, permitting "detained" leaders to go on bargaining. Having gone all the way militarily...
...largely to the "permissiveness and indulgence" of the Senate, an atmosphere in which Dodd's integrity faltered. How he sank ever more deeply into the debt of assorted acquisitive interests makes grim reading indeed. In return for favors in the Senate, say the authors, Dodd eventually took outright cash from his benefactors. After an officer of a Connecticut-based rifle-trigger company co-signed a loan made to him, Dodd put him on his congressional payroll. But then, say the authors, it is not an uncommon practice for Congressmen to put creditors on their staffs...