Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been protected, I, certainly, for one, have not been aware of it . . .1 don't believe that criticism that is honest and fair hurts anybody ... I think I am old enough and philosophical enough to try to separate the personal attacks from those that are honest differences of opinion and conviction. The latter I respect, and the first I ignore. And that is the way I try to conduct my life, because I have just got one thing to do . . . my duty...
With that admission, the pure flame of public anger yellowed and flickered, except for a backfire of resentment against Pearson for having misled public opinion. What had threatened to create a real diplomatic strain between Canada and the U.S. turned instead into an occasion for second thoughts and cooler analysis...
Finally fed up, Superintendent Moreland handed in his resignation. Said the Scripps-Howard Houston Press: "A black day for Houston ... In our opinion Dr. Moreland was just about the last brake that has kept the Houston school system from plunging into a mad whirlpool of uncontrolled extremism that has threatened it all these years. Dr. Moreland was a voice of sanity . . . We predict: after Moreland-the deluge...
...which many papers approach news involving religious controversy" was deplored by Sevellon Brown III, editor of the Providence Journal-Bulletin (combined circ. 202,819). Wrote he: "Any newspaper boss who is afraid of alienating readers or advertisers by the straightforward handling of news or the vigorous expression of editorial opinion when religious viewpoints impinge upon public affairs is seeing things under the bed . . . The bulk of newspaper readers are essentially reasonable people over the long run. They'll howl plenty when you tread on their pet opinions - especially religious opinions. But if they see that...
After years of work on deicing, U.S. bankers had expected a warm image of themselves in the public mind. But when the American Bankers Association in January got back a year-long public opinion survey, it was so disturbed that it refused to reveal the results. Last week Charles A. Eaton Jr., president of the New Jersey Bankers Association, told a meeting of financial public-relations men some of the awful truth...