Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second semester opened, the Class of '32 learned that, in President Lowell's opinion, "there was no such thing as a Harvard type." He also declared that "in the Harvard administration4The partially-built Indoor Athletic Building is shown above as it stood...
Beyond the Law? But in the court's decision a flock of pundits and commentators thought they found backing for their long-argued opinion that the use of the Fifth Amendment carries with it no public stigma, social, economic or otherwise. The Supreme Court, wrote New York Timesman James Reston, had spoken out "emphatically'' against the "popular tendency" of assuming that a witness "must be guilty of some wrongdoing if he invokes the Fifth Amendment." Thus it was claimed the court had rebutted President Eisenhower's recent commonsensical remark that...
...lost his budget fight." Lawrence, who is still being bombarded with critical mail for his defense of the budget, disagreed. "The tide," he wrote, "is turning. The President is relying on the simple theory that common sense and the facts will win the case in the court of public opinion." Partially joining him in this was the New York Times's James B. Reston, who reported last week that in "what have probably been the two most effective.days of his second Administration, [the President] has regained the initiative...
...Libby is well aware of the adverse opinion swirling around him. He thinks the AEC does not get proper credit for the effort it is making to find out more about the effects of fallout on humans. The AEC has also markedly reduced the radioactive poisons released by its megaton bomb tests, and it promises to make future tests even "cleaner...
Richard Wagner had a low opinion of Italian music (in Die Meistersinger, Hans Sachs stirringly denounces "Latin vapours and flummery"), but approved of Italian music lovers when they cheered his own work. Last week the Italians were cheering again, having staged what may well be one of the finest Wagner productions of the decade...