Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Douglas' reminiscences are said to have been so blunt that he had second thoughts about having some of them published; many of the sharpest barbs in the original manuscript were toned down or cut out by Douglas and his fourth wife Cathy, 36. Still, the book should bear out the Justice's well-earned reputation as a maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment...
...couple of years ago it would have been ludicrous to describe the music of the Clash in such terms; a tight, angry punk band, they merely translated blunt, explicit feelings of political frustration into bracing, furious music. The first Clash album (released as the band's second record in the U.S.) spit out all subtlety, and the second deliberately sidestepped...
Abandoning blunt messages allows the Clash to adopt musical subtleties. On their first album, they railed against society...
...phosphate poisoning case is only one instance in which Filartiga holds the United States accountable for his nation's woes. Filartiga outlines the relationship between Paraguay and the United States in blunt, unsparing words: "The government of Paraguay was created in the United States State Department in the year 1959." Carter's human rights stance does not move Filartiga; he calls it a "make-up policy," which makes "the regime swallowable" and allows repression to continue...
...affiliated with Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Like so many missionaries, Soos is not into soft sell or subtlety. He informs callers that the Bible is the "Christians' fictitious novel." But many of the people who accept his offer to reply, on a recording device, are equally blunt. Several have expressed regrets that atheists are no longer burned at the stake. One shouted: "Kill! Kill! Kill...