Word: forthright
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Master's Touch. With Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting members of his New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Szigeti gave his sell-out audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
...scandal sheet to become the most independent and vigorous paper in the capital. Harry Truman regards it as an opposition organ; the capital's reactionaries have long called it the "Washington edition of the Daily Worker." Yet its news judgment is so sure, its editorial voice so forthright, that, in a city where all lawmakers and administrators reach for the New York papers, it has become must reading. It is easily among the top ten papers...
...Attlee visit had one other effect, which the British perhaps intended. It delayed any more forthright statement of, policy from the White House. While Attlee was in the U.S., the President had deliberately refrained from making any pronouncement which might have pointed up the differences between the two allies. The President had to confine himself to what they could say with one voice. It was probably less than what he himself wanted to say, and certainly less than the clear, firm declaration of U.S. intentions that the country was waiting to hear...
...deadwood-obsolete in method, lean on wit, smacking of 19th-century melodrama. In 1950, it is much more of a problem play for directors than for theatergoers. In general, the current production is weak. But the two crucial scenes between Mrs. Warren and her daughter ring out with a forthright vigor and vibrancy; and Mrs. Warren (Estelle Winwood) is played with decided style, her daughter (Louisa Horton) with fine sobriety. Twice Mrs. Warren's Profession booms like a great-bellied old clock, even if it otherwise runs painfully slow and even stops dead...
...there were issues to be considered, they were mainly personal. Brazilians knew that if Cristiano* won, they were in for five more years of uninspired but careful constitutional rule. His rivals took a forthright stand on the proposition that, as outs, they could do a better job than the ins. The candidates tacitly ignored foreign affairs; Korea was hardly mentioned. Vargas supporters sometimes charged the present government with serving U.S. interests, and Dutra's partisans accused Vargas of accepting subsidies from Peron; but none of these charges could be made to stick...