Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud of His Slap. General Patton's boasting is more straightforward. In a final chapter called Earning My Pay, he cites 34 instances during his career when "my personal intervention had some value." Among them he includes the notorious slapping incident in Sicily. Writes Patton: ". . . Had other officers had the courage to do likewise, the shameful use of 'battle fatigue' as an excuse for cowardice would have been infinitely reduced...
...stories succeed, largely because they focus on a concrete event; but the third, called "Apprentice," is nothing but a long, almost pointless narrative that is written carelessly. "The Prisoner," by Roger Princerd, is the high point of the magazine, owing its success to a straightforward and unpretentious style, and to having the solid basis of one realistic incident. The story of a stowaway being back to Poland from America, it remains objective and lucid throughout...
Willing Loser. Camille was one of twelve children born on his father's river barge. He went to work on a farm at the age of twelve, grew up to be a side show wrestler at country fairs. A straightforward ox of a man, Bombois still has all the complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent...
...record of the present is not a straightforward chronicle of things happening and words spoken. It is a vast and cryptographic detective story, a labyrinth of hidden meanings and motives. How could it be otherwise when the chief figure on the international scene, Joseph Stalin, has written: "Words must have no relation to actions-otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are a mask for concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron...
Unfortunately, the closing work, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, not heard in Symphony Hall since 1945, seemed almost anti-climactic. The reading was quite straightforward and warm, outside of an unnecessarily funereal second movement, and great care was spent on fine details; but the fire and urgency that sweep everything before them when Toscanini plays this favorite, were somehow lacking...