Word: forthright
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...bureaucracy, charged the Foreign Service with timidity, inflexibility and lack of creativity. Most of the department's time, said the study, has been "devoted to applying the principles of the late forties in an increasingly rigid way to international conditions that were constantly changing." The authors were equally forthright in assigning causes: "The intellectual atrophy of the department was a compound of presidential dissatisfaction, political reaction, departmental conservatism, bureaucratic proliferation...
...improve State's standing in the Washington power hierarchy. When President Nixon was preparing his State of the World address last February, State's contribution was 500 pages of diffuse, carefully hedged suggestions that had to be reworked by White House staffers in favor of a more forthright, decisive declaration...
Though he does not project a forthright charismatic image, Bok is quietly appealing and knows how to play the political games without being Machiavellian about...
...Stuart Altmann of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta suggested that the chief value of his second book was to amend the errors of the first. After reading the same text, Edmund Leach, the British anthropologist, announced that it was "best left alone altogether." Despite such forthright professional judgments of his writings, Robert Ardrey, 61, the author of two anthropological bestsellers, African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966), has now produced another work in the same field, which is certain to draw even more caustic criticism from the discipline he has chosen to invade...
Varicusly described as forthright, controversial, dynamic, God, a grandstander, and whatever other names might be applied to Kingman Brewster...