Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Baltimore's Lawrence Cardinal Shehan invoked another ecclesiastical weapon - the canonical rule of incardination, which binds priests to obey and serve the bishop of the diocese to which they are attached. He used it to curb another kind of forthright priest, Father Gommar De Pauw, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement...
...political. The five Councillors thought that Curry, at 67, was getting too old for the job, that he hadn't taken a dynamic enough position on prospective capital improvements for the City, and that his administration was growing too complacent. In DeGuglielmo they found someone who seemed more active, forthright, and progressive. (Actually, DeGuglielmo found them, for it was he who wanted the manager's job and labored to pick up the necessary majority...
...nominate Adlai Stevenson as TIME'S Man of the Year. Had he achieved his wish and become Secretary of State, his kindly diplomacy and forthright manner could well have found a solution to the Viet Nam problem...
...planners told the Council and the audience that they had real doubts as to the need for the eight-lane highway. But simultaneously they warned that "there's going to be a Belt Route through Cambridge" and that the City must take a forthright position on the least harmful path...
...colleague, Professor Altizer. It is an accurate introduction. But no brief statement can convey the scope of reading, reflection and real involvement in our world that have provided the substance of Professor Altizer's views. His work is, of course, still in progress. But his perceptive judgments and forthright claims have helped to distinguish what is weak and pointless in theology, and to discern a new form of the Christian heritage adequate for the present. His work has already been of the very greatest importance to many of us at this university and elsewhere...