Word: forthright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other newsworthy hats got together when Eleanor Roosevelt (in a small, fussy one) and Bethune-Cookman College's Mary McLeod Bethune (in a forthright, big one) put their heads together over tea in Manhattan (see cut). Occasion: a fund-raising drive for a rural school for wayward boys...
Much of the film's forthright power has been lost through the work of the censor's scissors, and scenes that were honest and strong have become merely smutty. Admitting that there is temptation everywhere, the picture questions whether anyone can be truly religious, and finally states that one can. The Sister Superior, after a fierce struggle with her passion, defeats it, and discovers a humility that she did not have before the experience in the mountains. The conflict is a real one, for every year the nuns can leave the order if they want...
...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '88, associate professor of History, was brought into the Tribune spotlight again for having said, "Forthright support of the Marshall Plan is our only chance of creating a stable and democratic world...
...blanket endorsement of the general principles behind the Truman-Marshall foreign policy, Schlesinger told an informal audience in Adams House that forthright support of the Marshall Plan is our only chance of creating a stable and democratic world...