Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition still bears the hall-mark of the Daniel Webster era that engendered it. Of far more practical worth, however, would be prizes in public speaking. A striking witness to the value of drawing up one's own material and presenting it to an audience in direct and straightforward fashion is furnished by the hundred-odd undergraduates enrolled in various public speaking courses, and the many more that engage in debating from time to time. And it is for these men, rather than for mere memorizers, that the prizes should be set up as goal and sea-mark of their...
Among contemporary U. S. novelists, William Faulkner has the distinction of being one of the most powerful, certainly the least predictable, usually the hardest to read. Although he is the master of a swift and straightforward narrative prose that he has demonstrated in Sanctuary and other works, the plots of his stories are usually deliberately obscured until they resemble cyphers requiring careful study before they can be understood. Apparently only interested in such readers as are willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping...
...political columns called, "The National Whirl gig." At the time of the Tercentenary, when even the most crabbed of Boston reporters were lulled into amiability by Harvard's antiquity and learning, one columnist gave birth to a unique interpretation of the exercises in the Yard. It appears under the straightforward, no-foolin' title, "Out in the Rain...
Gratified and surprised was at least one TIME reader by TIME'S straightforward reporting on New York's milk troubles and its Pisecks (Sept. 14). Even farm papers tread gingerly about the edges of the current U. S. dairy muddle, view it with nothing more vigorous than plaintive editorials. Perfectly true had TIME chosen to mention it, is the fact that New York's conditions are typical of every major milk market. New England's producers are equally bitter but less vocal...
...season, producers this season think that all long and expensive pictures will be hits. Length has another advantage in that it helps combat what producers call the "double bill evil." An additional reason for Suzy's length is that the Legion of Decency would not have permitted a straightforward adaptation of Herbert Gorman's mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota of Harlow appeal which the picture contains had to be injected gradually rather than in short strong doses. Aside from the stuffy epic manner which ill befits its subject, it is a fair sample of its school...