Word: forthright
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Headmaster Fuess had, at least, been forthright. His first step was to abolish the compulsory classics; he found it "absurd to drive a boy with no aptitude for the subject two or three times through Caesar's Commentaries." He prefers to have only half his boys take Latin, "because they want...
...olive wreath to you for the forthright article on the subject of aid, morally and financially, to Greece, the birthplace of democracy [TIME, March...
...doctrine had served notice on the world that the U.S. would undertake forthright action when confronted with expanding Communism. It served notice on Russia that if she entertained ideas of gobbling up more nations, the U.S. was prepared to challenge her. It had raised the hopes of democratic peoples everywhere. Said a high French official: "This will convince Europeans that you are in Europe to stay...
...jokes about the insularity of Boston patricians and of obvious, rather anachronistic japes about Freud. Ronald Colman has gentle grace in the title role; Edna Best as his wife and Percy Waram as a brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown who, as the timid cousin Richard Ney doesn't want to marry...
...cruelty and perverted enthusiasm with which so many of our "superior, kindly" U.S. citizens are persecuting and prosecuting their neighbors, whether black or Jewish or white or Catholic. But we seem, in California (of Nisei persecution fame), to have struck a new low in American idealism. TIME'S forthright report of it, "Nothing Personal" [Feb. 17), is to be commended. . . . To find a group of "white Caucasians" (both conditions a pure accident of birth), holier-than-thou, Nazi-principled bigots going far out of their way to hound a single family, of admittedly good reputation, into court...