Word: forthright
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...hours last week, Vice President Richard Nixon nibbled cashew nuts and sipped tangerine juice with India's Jawaharlal Nehru. The two men, one forthright and husky, the other complex and slender, came away laughing and joking, unexpectedly impressed with each other. Nixon liked Nehru, and allowed that he now had "a much more rounded view" of India's policies. The Indians liked Nixon; Indian newspapers hailed his "free and frank manner...
...Indiana's textbook commissioner said, "There is a Communist directive in education now to stress the story of Robin Hood." Such a forthright cry deserves applause. America's youth must be saved from so insidious a menace...
...Strings, Op. I I (Stockholm Radio Orchestra, conducted by Stig Westerberg; London). An appealing piece dating from 1937 by one of Sweden's standout composers. Like a good many other Scandinavian efforts. Dag Wiren's work avoids blatant modernity, but gets a fresh, airy effect by blending forthright melodic warmth with spicy dashes of dissonance...
...picture has defects. The last scene slips feebly out of hand, and one whole long episode at the bottom of the sea is ludicrously out of sort and rhythm with the rest. Anna Larionova is a bit bovine as the heroine, although Serge Stolyarov is a splendidly male and forthright Sadko. On the whole, by going back to Russian moods far older than Eisenstein or Stalin, this picture achieves an almost childlike air, dreamy, simple, and yet full of hints of ancient wisdom...
...those who raised eyebrows at the prominently lettered name on his office door in Kansas City's Federal Reserve Bank Building, Harry S. Truman had a frank and forthright explanation: he was tired of visitors wandering in under the impression that it was the men's room...