Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York offers more incentive to witnesses than most municipalities: "Former members of the Communist Party who have severed their connections in good faith have nothing to fear if they tell the truth," Jansen continues. "A number of persons who were called in for questioning and gave straightforward answers about past membership are now teaching in our school system." Teachers in this category are believed to number...
...line of straightforward reasoning and policy set by Secretary McKay is merely another reason for my belief in the Eisenhower Administration and its attempt to return the simple, straightforward type of government for the people, not the politicians...
...audience was perplexed. What was George Balanchine trying to do, anyhow? One week be premiered his rollicking, straightforward Western Symphony with his New York City Ballet (TIME, Sept. 20), then he turned around and dished out this weird puzzler called Ivesiana. The music, which was by that half-legendary New Englander, the late Charles Ives, was peculiar enough, with its crotchety rhythms and its wispy dissonances-but what happened on stage was even odder...
...Lawrence horrified the English-speaking world by treating a sacred cow as if it were a bucking bronco, Author Hartley, 25 years later, shares (with many others of England's contemporary novelists) a desire to polish rather than pioneer. For all its virtues, The Go-Between is a straightforward case of what happens when sacred cow meets perfect gentleman...
...revolution in painting. You can't paint like Picasso any longer, and you can't paint like the old masters. You've got to go back to living, and the things around you." In his own painting he sets himself a straightforward goal: "A bottle is a bottle. And it's quite different from a cucumber. I want to get this across...