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...commended for a forthright explication of the mechanics of the Court, the character of its Justices, and for an affirmation of the institution's essential nature-the most reliable curator of individual liberties that a free society has yet been able to devise...
...acquisitive philosophy of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art is forthright: it will get the best, regardless of the envy of lesser museums, by spending vast effort and $1,000,000 a year to spot and buy good art. To this end it uses a learned and competitive director, plus 100 knowledgeable curators who constantly travel the world. Guiding the effort, by electing the director and curators, and balancing it, by curbing or encouraging them, is the job of the Met's 38-man board of trustees-and most particularly the president of the board...
...time allows - marriage and the church in the modern world. Also scheduled for debate are two declarations that are strongly backed by the U.S. hierarchy: 1) a ringing affirmation of every man's right to worship as his conscience dictates, and 2) a somewhat less than forthright condemnation of antiSemitism...
...most forthright remarks came from Chancellor Ludwig Erhard: "Today we Germans are reminded of the calamity of 1939 with special force because it was unleashed in our name by a brutal ruler. It is quite clear that Hitler carries the prime guilt for World War II . . . The words which the German leadership then spoke in blind arrogance, hatred and megalomania betray such hubris and gross disregard for realities that this happening must remain a constant lesson and warning to future generations...
...SUBSTANCE, by John P. Roche. The national chairman of the A.D.A. says that Americans have more civil liberties than any other people in history, and goes on to reveal that the Birchers are No. 23 on his personal list of fears-nuclear war is No. 1-clearly a forthright man and a refreshing book...