Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straightforward discussion of these topics will involve the making of a few honest statements that are bound to prick a few of the self-righteous and certain to upset these in authority. Dr. Ruthven hardly can be much more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases...
...spite of its intelligentsia title, this is a good and straightforward book. You should not let a little thing like the author's preciosity put you off it. The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones is a brief, impressionistic, fairly comprehensive catalog of a man's life-a man not quite universal enough to be called Everyman, but typical enough to bear the name of Jones. In a note, Author Aiken explains he is indebted for the rest of his title to a translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in which the deceased is always...
...Morton Robinson has produced an uncritical, unscholarly book which, however, should not lose interest and fascination on that account among popular readers. While the style is often fantastic, especially in the fictitious speeches which partake of the unrealities of movie melodrama, Mr. Robinson uses for the most part a straightforward narrative which brings out the more exciting aspects of the conquest. He shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct...
...Yemen (Amkino). This is an example of an elementary and important use of the camera too rarely attempted by U. S. producers: straightforward reporting. It is not a thrilling picture; it is interesting?a description of life in an independent state in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It was made by representatives of the German and Soviet governments on a special expedition...
...poets have become bestsellers, but Stephen Vincent Benet turned the trick when he wrote John Brown's Body (1928). His is a Muse of a straightforward, dramatic kind, at her best in balladish vein. Into this book Poet Benet has collected his favorites from three earlier, out-of-print volumes and has added some new ones. Only a Benet enthusiast would call this book first-class, but almost anyone would grant its readability, its occasional bursts of exciting phrases...