Word: forthright
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Like all living organisms, cities are constantly changing. One American city that seems to manage technological and economic change without sacrificing its essential character is Boston. Its residents have kept their new downtown, with its forthright and boldly sculptural city hall, the Faneuil Hall festival market and converted granite warehouses along the waterfront, as Bostonian as Bunker Hill. Now they are managing to control drastic changes in the famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been...
...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest War and Peace, the common soldiers as clearly visualized as Tolstoy's peasants. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, it is all war, not only in the sense that there are no scenes of peaceful life poised against the scenes of war, but in the sense that a knowledge of the meaning of peace is absent from the characters. They seem never to have known anything else...
...rigid class structure of Polish society and the book makes that point well. But it does not explain the precasting of the three families who serve as protagonists: the major nobles are wise and selfless, the petty nobles brave, but not extremely intelligent, the peasants stalwart and forthright. Under the combined weight of political and individual stereotypes, Poland is merely a vehicle for the characters' political platitudes. Even in the most romantic and stirring public scenes, personal characters get buried. The following is a scene from turn of the century Vienna...
...will make contributions to enhance the solidarity in the West" Since taking office last November, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has displayed a forthright, outspoken style unusual for Japanese leaders. Abandoning the somewhat dispassionate manner of his predecessors, he has begun to usher his nation firmly into a full partnership with the West. He has increased military spending and expanded his country's defense commitment in the western Pacific. At the same time, he has moved rapidly to open Japanese markets to more Western imports. Following his party's good showing in the recent parliamentary elections, Nakasone met with...
Surviving in such an emotional climate was a challenge that Heywood Hale Broun was barely able to meet. It has taken the television commentator 50 years to recover, and even now he bears scars. Yet in this poignant memoir, Broun, 65, manages to salute two forthright eccentrics who "probably shouldn't have gotten married; probably should never have had a child; and probably shouldn't, after 17 years of marriage, have gotten divorced...