Word: blunt
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...yielded few clues about the course that the superpower relationship might take. What the meeting did show is two things: 1) the Carter Administration's determination to deal sternly with Moscow so long as Soviet troops remain in Afghanistan and 2) Muskie's readiness to be a blunt spokesman for this position. In his address at the Austrian celebrations, with Gromyko sitting just a few feet from him, Muskie clearly alluded to the Afghanistan invasion as he said that "the principles of neutrality, of independence and territorial integrity so respected in the case of Austria are today being...
...many essayist-reviewers, Pritchett never preens. His erudition is like old money, reassuringly there but tastefully in the background. His impulse is always to understand rather than attack; he often acknowledges the criticism of others so that he can temper it. He calls Edmund Wilson's plain, sometimes blunt style "democratic, in the sense that this distinguished man will not for long allow one phrase to be better than another." Evelyn Waugh is similarly pardoned: "To object to his snobbery is as futile as objecting to cricket, for every summer the damn game comes round again whether you like...
...partners by geography, time zones and even language. The Japanese claim that they are by nature reluctant to speak out boldly on issues. Says Jun Tsunoda, director of Tokyo's Center for Strategic Studies: "We are brought up in a tradition of civility. We don't like to say blunt things...
Although deep down Powell may have wanted to end his work with this blunt indictment, he allows himself to revert to "Edthink" in two final paragraphs of qualification and apparent apology to his former employers. He praises "Harvard's investment in education" for providing self-consciousness, but not self-confidence, to the profession, implying that this contribution makes up for the 60 years of indecision...
Wardell Pomeroy, co-author of the original Kinsey reports on males and females, is far more blunt. "It is time to admit that incest need not be a perversion or a symptom of mental illness," he says. "Incest between . . . children and adults . . . can sometimes be beneficial." Indeed the new pro-incest literature is filled with the stupefying idea that opposition to incest reflects an uptight resistance to easy affection and warmth among family members. Writes Anthropologist Seymour Parker of the University of Utah cautiously: "It is questionable if the costs (of the incest taboo) in guilt and uneasy distancing between...