Word: forthwright
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Richard Marius deserves a vigorous defense against the morally obtuse Martin Peretz ("Marius `Unhired' as Gore Aid," news story, Jul. 21, 1995). I served as a faculty member under Marius for two years; a forthwright and sometimes outspoken intellectual, he has always drawn a steady flow of criticsm, and like all of us, he has his faults. As a colleague of Marius, as a sometime critic of the man, and as a Jew, let me be emphatic: anti-Semitism is not one of those faults...
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