Word: forthright
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...Extraordinarily likable and friendly ... a man of integrity desiring peace." And an American, who worked with Ho against the Japanese in World War II, wraps up the encomium: "Ho was a very nice guy." Ho Chi Minh is a wispy man (100 Ibs.), mild and slow-spoken, and disarmingly forthright. He is a man who sits on the edges of chairs, his hands folded meekly in his lap. "You must give the people an example of poverty, misery and denial," he sometimes adjures his disciples, and off he plods, ostentatiously, through the villages, with a knapsack on his back...
...have done medical education a service with your forthright article on the cadaver shortage in this country [TIME, Oct. 4]. However . . . your selection of Tennessee as an example gives a mistaken impression. Although the University of Tennessee College of Medicine accepts 200 medical students a year, we have at this time five students at each dissecting table. But the situation is getting worse rather than better...
...alarmists are right only in that here is much to fear today. But if the academic world were to grant the conclusion that there is little or no hope, the baleful predictions might well come true. When more universities reject self-pity and take instead a forthright stand against each unfounded attack, then education can match, in its own defense, that spirit of progress and initiative which has marked its advance in every other intellectual endeavor...
Countless episodes have created-and to some extent justified-an impression that Magsaysay, for all his forthright talk, wavers in the clinches, vacillates, makes and countermands and remakes decisions...
...alarmists are right only in that there is much to fear today. But if the academic world were to grant the conclusion that there is little or no hope, the baleful predictions might well come true. When more universities reject self-pity and take instead a forthright stand against each unfounded attack, then education can match, in its own defense, that spirit of progress and initiative which has marked its advance in every other intellectual endeavor...