Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times the book is a mere exposition of Mr. Kirstein's erudition, but not often; at others it expresses truly deep and intense feeling. There is little description and less comment. The story is told in a straightforward fashion by convincing conversation in short scenes that are admirably contrasted...
...that they are two boards for which competitions are open to Sophomores at the present time. Otherwise there is little similarity between them. I find it difficult indeed to visualize an editorial man, of the temperament of a Vagabond writer, for instance, handling shrewd business men or writing straightforward advertising copy; or seeing a business man turn from his adding machine to dictate an editorial on secondary schools. But, of course, one board could not function without the other and both are integral parts of the Crimson...
When the late plug-hatted, snow- whiskered Col. William D'Alton Mann published Town Topics 30, 40 years ago, he made a straightforward if unpleasant practice of "borrowing" large sums from individuals who did not want unkind things printed about themselves in the gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item...
...used it well, creating out of the Brown Decades a period both instructive and entertaining to modern readers. If it is less interesting than his earlier works, the fault is in the period, not in the interpreter; prospective readers need to be warned, however, to expect an unusually straightforward bit of writing, and incidentally of economic criticism on page...
Significant is the O'Neill treatment of the theme: simple, straightforward. Spectators who came expecting asides, theatrical tricks such as those employed in Strange Interlude were disappointed. Spectators who hoped to see an elaborate job of mental vivisection, such as Playwright O'Neill displayed in Strange Interlude, were disappointed, too. Prime point of criticism of Mourning Becomes Electra is its bareness. Six hours is a long time to have to sit and watch a family obliterate itself, motivated by unrelieved hatred and lust...