Word: outspoken
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Complaints ranged from the mundane to the exotic. One crowd pleaser was Vladimir Kabaidze, 64, general director of a machine-tool plant in the city of Ivanovo. Earthy and outspoken, Kabaidze took pleasure in skewering the ministerial bureaucracy that oversees Soviet industrial enterprises. Kabaidze offered some feline advice: "If a minister can catch mice, feed him. If he can't, don't bother." He also denounced the bloated cadre of "scientific workers" who are designated to carry out state-supported research-and- development projects but actually perform little productive labor. "I recently heard a horrible statistic," he told the conference...
...livelier than the set-piece meetings typical of East bloc politics. That prediction is buttressed by the presence among the delegations of fiery and independent-minded public figures. These include Boris Yeltsin, whom Gorbachev ousted late last year as Moscow party leader, apparently for being a bit too outspoken in favor of perestroika. Yeltsin was nevertheless elected a delegate from a remote district on the Finnish border...
...prepared to take outspoken positions. But she never expected that Harvard's brand of activism would involve so much tolerance on the University's part, and so much cooperation on the activists' side. She says Harvard activism is almost a cooperative effort between students and administrators, far from the direct opposition that characterized the movement in the 1960s and 1970s...
...between ideal and reality is once again visible, as the Soviet Union projects a fresh image to the world in the person of Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Intelligent, urbane and outspoken, she leads a fast-paced, glamorous life that is as elusive to most Soviet women as the pomp of the royal family is to most Britons. Hailed abroad as the new Soviet woman, Mrs. Gorbachev is perceived as her country's first female superstar since the days of Alexandra Kollantai and Inessa Armand, both early feminists, and Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, more than...
Grosz is virtually guaranteed support from the eleven-member Politburo, the party's top decision-making body, where his allies are in the majority. Imre Pozsgay, 54, the outspoken head of the People's Patriotic Front, a Communist- led umbrella organization of some 100 special-interest groups, and Reszo Nyers, 65, Hungary's most prominent reform economist, were among those elected to the Politburo during the same party conference that ousted Kadar...