Word: straightforwardly
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...face of it, seems both simple and extravagant: spend more than $60 million on two autumn months of straightforward, just-the-facts-ma'am television advertising. Perot has always wondered why American campaigns can't be as short (and sweet) as European ones. Now he will get his chance to see if they...
Michael J. Prokopow, assistant dean of the Harvard Secondary School Program, said the incident was straightforward and reasonable...
Such works remind you that the view of Homer that was current 20 years ago, and that this show corrects--that he was a realist in a simple and straightforward way--was wrong. It reckons without the deep strand of existential pessimism that runs in Homer's work and that creates its own symbolic structures. For Homer, as for another great and underrated artist, his contemporary Rudyard Kipling, man is at constant war with his surroundings in a world that cares nothing about him and gives him no natural allies. The moment you step from the social path, where security...
...decorations for the dining hall that make it look like a themed playground. First-years come up only for a meal but they stay a long time, lounging on the grass and talking to upperclass students about good rooms (all of them) and asking house residents for a straightforward definition of a 'lambing'. There never...
...straightforward account of what these men did would have been enough in itself to make a compelling book. But the husband-and-wife team of Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson (he's a former Washington bureau chief for TIME; she's a former correspondent for the Associated Press) is after something more ambitious with The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Houghton Mifflin; 445 pages; $27.95). The authors have given us a clear-eyed account of what happened to these luminaries as well as to broadcast journalism in the decades after World...