Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...TELL STUDENTS that inflated energy costs directly affect tuition, for example, seems straightforward and reasonable--until one considers that it wasn't until last spring that the Faculty finally commissioned a study of its energy use. A small group of movers, led by Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, completed the initial phase of the study during the summer and found that a few conservation measures could cut energy consumption by 20 per cent in just one year. And Gerrity says that over in Byerly Hall, one man--Paul Morvay, assistant to the director of financial aid--underspent...
MAZURSKY'S BEWILDERING script resonates satire as well as straightforward dialogue; it makes for dense, often unfathomable exchanges. When Jeannette looks at Willie early on and says, "Don't tell me that you love me, just love me," we can't be sure whether the writer is making fun of the famous lines from Love Story. The recurring line: "our destinies are interlocked forever," which Jeannette announces the first time they all meet, teases us, but are we expected to take it seriously...
Relatives of Desaparecidos interviewed seemed to agree that although Isabel Peron's 1973-76 regime paralleled Videla's brutal extermination of students, leftists, and intellectuals, its death-squad was more straightforward about its deeds. "At least they wore uniforms, at least they phoned the newspapers to tell them what they did," one woman said. "But now you get the feeling there's evil lurking under the surface that's not being admitted...
...metal spike on which editors impale copy they decide not to print--for different reasons, including when they do not sympathize with its politics. It implies bias by omission, and calls into question the meaning of "objectivity" in journalism. The two celebrated writers who wrote the book have a straightforward answer: Objectivity doesn't exist. When Hockney first discovers the Soviets may be influencing the American media, his editors shelve the story. In the authors' bipolar world, if you're not with us, you're against...
...metal spike on which editors impale copy they decide not to print--for different reasons, including when they do not sympathize with its politics. It implies bias by omission, and calls into question the meaning of "objectivity" in journalism. The two celebrated writers who wrote the book have a straightforward answer: Objectivity doesn't exist. When Hockney first discovers the Soviets may be influencing the American media, his editors shelve the story. In the authors' bipolar world, if you're not with us, you're against...