Word: forthright
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...such subjects as "Cooperation with Latin-American Universities," "Pensions and Insurance," "University Ethics," "Depression and Recovery in Higher Education." But its Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure, significantly designated Committee A, almost alone makes News. Committee A does not pull its punches. Its reports are models of courageous investigation and forthright speaking. If the entire profession should ever nerve itself to act as vigorously as this militant minority speaks, it would dispel forever the lay conviction that professors as a class are learned mice...
...York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-a body representing all the Methodists eastward of Third Avenue in New York, on Long Island and in Connecticut as far as New Haven. Without much argument the Conference adopted the report. This seemed to mark the Conference as forthright, courageous. It seemed to demonstrate that the New York East Methodists had thoughtfully examined Capitalism, had totally and finally rejected it and were ready to lead their people on toward something better. But were they...
...University should never appear to be equivocating, nor should it be roundabout in its dealings with students. It held a defensible position in this matter, but it failed to adopt a forthright course...
Many another Councilman spoke, Britain's judicial Sir John Simon, France's forthright peasant-tongued Pierre Laval, Spain's verbose and lyric Salvador de Madariaga, but they all added up to the same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...
...makes his symbolism difficult for the uninitiated. One is grateful, therefore, for the explanations of it given in the manifesto. His own poetry is the least obscure of the lot. Not even "From Feathers to Iron" offers any real difficulty, and the satire of "The Magnetic Mountain" is very forthright; one may instance the passage beginning "Let us now praise famous...