Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poet he is a master, divisively, sometimes awkwardly stretched between two landmass languages. There are times when he appears as a provincial linguistic pedant. At other times he is an overrefined rhymester who thinks it snazzy to pretend that "pre-au-roral" is the best English version of a straightforward Russian word meaning "daybreak." Nabokov seems to know and obstinately use all the English words that ever existed, but does he really not see that "stirless" (as in "Stirless, I stand there at the window") is an unsuccessful coinage, or that "mellow moon" sounds like an ad for Mars Bars...
...Colombo Sr., a reputed Mafia member and founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, to fight what both termed harassment by the Federal Government. The question remains whether the U.S. Government or even the New York City police could have moved against the J.D.L. in a more straightforward manner...
...Gomaa "that I have accepted his resignation"-despite the fact that the Interior Minister had not submitted a resignation. Sharaf "wept on the telephone," Sadat recalled during his broadcast last week. "I said, 'When I lose confidence in someone, I cannot maneuver or lay an ambush. I am straightforward and always in the open...
...there is a deep sardonicism in his personality, a self-deprecating sense of humor which he would sometimes use to disarm his colleagues and at other times to make straightforward remarks which he would never have dared utter in a serious vein. "My problem," he once said to a Faculty coleague with a trace of a grin, "is that I was born arrogant"; the remark of a man who either thought himself above reproach or was perhaps entirely too blind about the roots of his own scornfulness...
...from Laszlo Pasztor '73, chairman of Harvard Young Americans for Freedom and co-chairman of Students for a Just Peace. An honest and conscientious newspaper receives many such letters. Some are justified and many contain some truth; many others are misleading and self-serving attempts to confuse readers about straightforward, factual stories. The usual policy is to publish, the letter with, at most, a modest reply, and to reply on the fairness of the coverage in question to convince readers of the truth...