Word: opinionatedness
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Beneath the psychopolitical analyses lay the tragic facts: a brilliant mind battered by a career of controversy, a wife who was expert in her own field (sociology) but also opinionated and argumentative, protective of her husband but known to contradict him publicly. "It was a passionate marriage in every sense...
Industrial and environmental lobbyists had disagreed over Carnesale's nomination, with some believing Carnesale was too opinionated a choice and others pushing his nomination because they though the NRC, criticized for its handling of the Three Mile Island incident, needed strong guidance immediately.
The man who must deal with that question, along with all the other questions that feed into it, is Edward Irving Koch, 55, mayor since 1978 and, as Sydney Greenstreet said of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, a real character. If New York is a taxi, Ed Koch is...
He has been dubbed the "Mouth of the South," "Captain Courageous" and "Terrible Ted." A 1978 biography described him as "handsome, loud, opinionated, arrogant; a self-styled Rhett Butler." Even his enemies say he is fearless. His friends call him a visionary. "Goddam," Ted Turner says, "of all the things...
William B. Hauser, chairman of the history department at Rochester University said, "Genovese is a tough man to deal with because he's strongly opinionated, but there are no problems within our department."