Word: opinionatedness
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ONE OF THE NICEST things about What Really Happened is the authors' determination to avoid those easy, slick judgments about their characters. Limiting their own role to descriptions and an occasional musing, they allow the people they present to speak for themselves and about each other, using excerpts from interviews...
Third in the line was Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, about 65, Vice Premier of the state council, political commissar of the People's Liberation Army and the man said to be acting secretary-general of the Communist Party. There is quickness and intelligence in his eyes...
The skilled anchor man does not palaver, as time-filling radio broadcasters used to, but rarely does he say anything memorable either. His talent is to roll out endless spools of language that inform but do not rile. It is a strange, self-limiting role for garrulous, confident men. Opinionated...
Despite his lack of experience in foreign affairs, Reagan feels capable of bringing similar toughness into effective dealings with the Soviet Union. He concedes that "it may sound rather ridiculous as a comparison," but claims that his experience as negotiator for the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood's earlier days...
Ross said yesterday Rosovsky is more opinionated and may "express his own opinions and influence the CHUL" far more than Pipkin ever did. Pipkin usually remained neutral and never tried to be persuasive, she said.