Word: forthright
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...Forthright Mistress. Glenda Jackson will soon take on Elizabeth I again, this time opposite Vanessa Redgrave's Mary, in yet another reprise of the Mary, Queen of Scots legend. She may also agree to play Charlotte in a film about the Bronte sisters presently being written by Christopher Fry. Beyond all that, the demands of domesticity may eventually outweigh her professional ambition. "I've essentially accomplished what I set out to do, and I'll be ready to quit the day my son says, 'I don't want you to go out.' " In Hollywood...
...firms. But sensation seeking does not seem to have been Daniel's motive. As one colleague put it, "Aubrey means it when he says he isn't looking for publicity. He was just extremely disillusioned." The letter is a reflection of the Daniel style: cool, analytical, forthright...
...However you use the term "tough-minded," though, it clearly is applicable to Robert Brustein. He is a man who has fought for an intellectually respectable program at the Yale Drama School, where he is dean, and also one whose commentaries in the New Republic and elsewhere are extremely forthright and even acidulous, betraying taints of creeping handlinism...
Samplings of the style and forthright opinions of the chairman-to-be of the House Armed Services Committee, F. Edward Hebert, offered last week in Washington...
...Defense Department should be ordered to stop penalizing employees who disclose facts of cost overruns and mismanagement to congressional committees in such matters as the F-111 and C-5A aircraft contracts. The White House could and should be more forthright in its disclosures of military operations and diplomatic agreements, such as those in Laos. The news media, moreover, could better serve the public interest by being less considerate of the sensibilities of Government officials who try to manage the news. Reporters might well remember President John Kennedy's comment to New York Times Editor Turner Catledge, whose paper...