Word: forthright
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...visualize international leadership without consent. During the Age of Reason, when humanity at large was deemed capable of holding a collective view, the Declaration of Independence pledged a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind." At the time, this meant not merely listening but telling-giving the world a forthright, stirring statement of the American purpose...
Almost defiantly literal, the film at times looks like a 15th century news documentary. Every line of dialogue is taken from transcripts of Joan's heresy trial, preserved in French archives since 1431. Joan is played by a forthright nonprofessional (Florence Carrez), shrewdly directed to make her acting appear a simple act of faith. She pits her visions and her voices against ecclesiastical authority in a poignant litany that could hardly be improved as drama...
...most forthright witnesses have ever encountered," is the way Circuit Judge Rodney S. Eielson described William G. Alpert, 20, of Darien, Conn., at last month's trial and conviction of 19-year-old Michael Smith for negligent homicide in the car-crash death of Nancy Hitchings. Alpert, Smith's chum at Norwalk Community College, a night school, had volunteered vivid descriptions of staggering drunkenness at the debutante party that preceded the fatal accident. He himself did not drink, said Alpert, airily explaining: "I have no need to dull my senses...
...progressive program of regional mental-health clinics, helped increase Illinois exports abroad, reduced public relief costs, firmly supported state laws to help Negroes get fairer treatment in seeking housing and jobs, knocked much administrative waste out of the State Toll Road Commission. He has notably failed to take forthright action in reforming Illinois' archaic tax system, which may yet drive the state to the edge of bankruptcy...
...Newsman Michael Foot, 51, of the weekly London Tribune, is stepping up in Westminster as a Labor party M. P., while his brother Dingle, 59, the new government's Solicitor General, will soon be knighted and hang out his shingle as Sir Dingle. Meanwhile the left Foots' forthright brother, Sir Hugh Foot, 57, sometime colonial governor and Britain's U.N. delegate, is about to be made a lord, and must decide what name to take after it. am afraid," says he, "that use of 'the Baron Foot' might lead to references to 'the dead...