Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influence, traditional religion is now effecting a widespread repression of the teaching of this central principle of biology in our public schools. It sometimes forces the resignation of able zoologists even from college positions; and in high schools and late primary grades there are probably today few places where straightforward teaching of the unmitigated evolution principle can be done except at the peril of the teacher. An eviscerated straw man is set up in place of the reality for the younger students of denominational and parochial schools everywhere. Many millions of our present and future citizens are robbed...
...Crusader Katterfeld started a little magazine called Evolution. He solicited and published sound, straightforward articles from reputable scientists, avoided the wilder forms of abuse but exposed and excoriated antiscientific pressure wherever he found it. In 1932 he found the struggle to keep Evolution going too difficult, decided to stop publication for a while and lay the foundations for revival by a campaign of vigorous field work. His three daughters and two sons, although sympathizing and helping, were inclined to laugh at his "pipe dream." But Katterfeld persisted...
...last 20 years, Stravinsky has wandered far from his original inspiration. His musical concepts are now spare, straightforward, logical. When, in 1927. music-minded Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge commissioned him to write a ballet, he decided to make it "white." A "white ballet" does not use colored costumes or gaudy scenery, puts its emphasis on the dancing. Stravinsky was so anxious to keep Apollon Musagete free of color that he scored it only for strings...
They aim to give pleasure by a "synthesis of life"-achieved in straightforward pictorial form by force of imagination...
...Dublin through which Gogarty takes his sometimes headlong but not always straightforward course is peopled with queer, usually delightful characters, many of them transatlantically famed. Francis Hackett, George Moore, AE, William Butler Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few of them are not good for a laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with...