Word: outspoken
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Many notable European intellectuals regarded America as the epitome of a modernity they feared and scorned, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Sigmund Freud, Frances Trollope to Charles Dickens. There were exceptions, of course. Karl Marx voiced his outspoken support of the Union in its struggle against the Confederacy, and a few social democratic and liberal intellectuals—in the European sense—expressed favorable views of the United States. But on the whole, negative views predominated among Europe’s elites, regardless of country or political conviction...
Relations between Seoul and Washington have shown increased strain since Roh Moo-Hyun, an outspoken critic of the American invasion of Iraq, was elected president of South Korea in December...
Climenko Professor Charles J. Ogeltree, an outspoken opponent of the Solomon Amendment, said he felt Harvard’s choice not to be part of FAIR came from the University administration, not the law school...
Archie stood for certain things; he was a man of principle, and everyone knew what those principles were. He was, first and foremost, an unapologetic and outspoken integrationist. He believed that our similarities are more important than our differences. He said it best in his introduction to the essays he had freshmen read: “We believe that ethnic differences are permeable, not separate boundaries that divide. Our diversity is a means to an end, which is the construction of a ‘special perspective’ that characterizes a Harvard student. Harvard is a place where...
Epps was unafraid to be an outspoken advocate of his policy stances, often throwing his weight behind projects opposed by Lewis and publicly disagreeing with his boss about the nature and aim of Harvard’s undergraduate education. He prided himself on independent thought...