Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Varicusly described as forthright, controversial, dynamic, God, a grandstander, and whatever other names might be applied to Kingman Brewster...
...President who has seemed wishy-washy on racial issues and who has been accused, with some justice, of pursuing a strategy of appeasing the South, the move was forthright and forceful. Nixon was emphatically urged not to make the trip by Attorney General John Mitchell and Political Adviser Harry Dent, who argued that he would be tagged by Southerners as the "chief mixmaster." And if the school opening does lead to disorder, they advised that he let the courts take all the heat. But Nixon overruled such expediency; he felt he had a duty to become involved...
...mean higher food prices at home. Admission negotiations start on the Continent next month. While both Labor and Tory leaders favor Britain's entry, samplings show 57% of the electorate is opposed. Wilson simply dodges the point, referring questioners to dull previous statements. Heath has been somewhat more forthright. But in Portsmouth, after hailing the potential benefits to Britain of Common Market membership, Heath wound up his paean by saying that "no British government could take the British people into the Common Market against their will...
What first brought Yolles to public attention was his forthright opposition in 1968 to congressional bills that would have increased the already stiff penalties for possession or occasional use of marijuana. His intervention in what he regarded as strictly a medical question was surprisingly effective, and Congress eased the penalties. But his victory won him few friends and set the law-and-order forces against...
...make the reader think; he uses parodies to stir emotion. Like a billiard shark trying carom shots, he plays worn emotional impacts and responses against one another. The meaning behind the meaning in his stories is that the old main lines of communication are down. The simple, the forthright, the straightforward can no longer be confidently said. For the time being at least, messages must be sent by mirrors. And at that game, Donald Barthelme knows no peer...