Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Natural, straightforward, usually tragicomical, Author O'Connor's stories present a world that is self-contained-often sadly so. An old Ford is the most up-to-date object in the book; the reader's eyes are directed into the past rather than the future. In one of the stories an old woman attains her lifelong ambition, which is to be buried in the place where she was born. In another, a kindly, drunken father spins his young daughters what seems to be simply a gay, Oriental tale, but which turns suddenly into...
What is his measure? He is modest, honest, healthy, simple, kindly, straightforward, with a pleasant sense of humor, the average level of Congressional intelligence-which is higher than U.S. voters often think. His defects are lacks: he is obviously not a man whose nobility of purpose, splendid idealism or farsighted vision of the American destiny has ever stirred or could ever stir the country. He is not known as the sponsor of any legislation of importance, let alone of any profound or seriously progressive measures; he has never notably participated in debate on taxes or economic measures...
...Doughboy" [TIME, April 10] stirred the ex-infantryman in me. . . . When the war is finally won, there will be no doubt in the civilian mind that the dirtiest, toughest, most grueling part of the job was done by the infantry and artillery and other earthbound forces. TIME, in its straightforward accounts of the fight, has taught this to many, including the pilot and naval officer of your article...
...State, Stettinius this week published a fat, 358-page book, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory (MacMillan; $3). (Although he signed and sweated over it, the book is actually the joint effort of Stettinius and some 50 others in & out of Lend-Lease, with a final polish by professional writers.) Straightforward, barren of "inside information," the book offers the most comprehensive picture of Lend-Lease to date. It is jampacked with facts, big & little. Some of them...
...teacher's letter is a quiet and homely report on the state of the nation for which he is fighting. The camera makes that report simple, straightforward and clear as only a camera can. If the report were less unqualifiedly contented, it would gain in power; but it has a good deal of power as it stands. Larry O'Reilly, who wrote and photographed the film, has not tried to beautify the faces of real townspeople, and the face of a real town (Monroe, N.Y.), which are beautiful in their own right. As a result his quiet little...