Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other areas, Muskie has a strong record-for example, legislation on clean air and water, urban redevelopment, civil rights and antipoverty. And he is increasingly sensitive to the decisiveness issue. In what appears to be part of a conscious design to show himself to be forthright, he publicly endorsed last weekend's antiwar rally in Washington. Earlier he fired a formidable salvo at the FBI, accusing the G-men of conducting widespread surveillance of last year's Earth Day demonstrations against pollution. "If antipollution rallies are a subject of intelligence concern," Muskie asked, "is anything immune?" (In fact...
...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...
...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...