Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glitter Gulch, the approach to the tourist is straightforward. The Golden Nugget, a large gambling house in the heart of the Gulch, is the richest vein in the big rock candy mountain of Las Vegas. It offers no entertainment, just a multitude of ways to gamble, from wheels of fortune and penny slots to big-time poker games in the back rooms. In Paradise (A or B), the atmosphere is more subtle: air conditioning, deckle-edged swimming pools (with extravagant poolside displays of bathing beauties), fine food at fair prices, top entertainment, well-irrigated golf courses. But all are mere...
...every fall more than three hundred students file into Philosophy la fully prepared to withstand the tirades of a lecturer as dogmatic as the philosophers he treats. Each spring they file out wondering how Demos, in a simple, straightforward way, has managed to interest them in "philosophy from Plato through James." Intentionally or not, Demos seems to have learned a lesson in humble erudition from Socrates, the "intellectual midwife...
...63rd birthday this week, he was still suffering from a stiff elbow and a mild touch of flu, but generally he was in good health. At his press conference the President showed a new capability for fencing with the press. In conferences past, Eisenhower has almost always given straightforward answers to every question-even those questions he was unready to answer. Last week, the President adopted new tactics. Samples...
Perhaps the key to what Ruth Gordon's play, Years Ago, lost in Hollywood is shown in the change of title. Years Ago, with its straightforward, unpretentious title was exactly that type of play: direct, pleasant nostalgia with no particular aim but a considerable degree of warmth. The film version is now called The Actress, and the mood has been changed accordingly. It is now a large-scale production. The fragile plot is pointed up to take on the broad proportions the new name implies. And since Miss Gordon's delicate material would not sharpen to that extent, the picture...
...could get that much straightforward information from one, let alone nearly 6,000 women, should be TIME'S Man of the Year...