Word: outspoken
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...that changed in 1967, as Kaminskaya recounts in an engrossing new book, Final Judgment (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). In that year she made the fateful decision to represent the Soviet Union's most outspoken dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky, who had been charged with organizing a demonstration in Moscow's Pushkin Square. Kaminskaya boldly pleaded for acquittal, partly on the ground that Bukovsky had the right to demonstrate under the Soviet constitution. The legal community was shocked that she had invoked the constitution-a tactic that is taboo in political cases. In practice, the basic civil rights guaranteed by the constitution...
...teach to a greater degree than we had expected," says Edward J. Meade Jr., who directs the foundation's precollege educational programs. What made the schools fight to improve? The basic reason was pride, which was evoked by strong leadership. The resurgence was often crystallized around an outspoken and energetic principal who galvanized students, parents and community. Reports Meade: "In some cases the motivation was as simple as, 'We were known as the lousiest school in town, and we don't want to be the lousiest school...
Eleni was beautiful and eventually outspoken, but she was not a feminist, not even a matriarch. She was a country woman, brought up to a life of ceaseless, selfless duty to men and her elders. Wedding ceremonies in Lia traditionally included a moment when the groom stamped on the bride's toes to establish his dominance; on wedding nights, brides in Lia customarily slept with their mothers-in-law rather than their husbands, as a symbolic lesson in obedience to the new clan. Eleni scarcely thought of leaving her rigid culture until it began to shatter violently around...
David Solomon's incarceration is a political orisoner is not his only credential: he is an internationally known author and editor of two out standing anthologies on psychoactive substances--The Marijuana Papers and LSD The Consciousness-Expanding DrugAs your reporter should have witnessed, he is a vigorous and outspoken defender of personal responsibility and freedom from tyranny, as well as of that precious freedom of the press which you have exploited with your sloppy reportage...
Frustration over America's diminishing commitment to human rights, an issue on which the outspoken ambassador has rightly become a lightning rod, directly prompted the recent protests. The miffed Ambassador would do well to see that her inability to speak in public without being shouted down speaks much about the nature of the policies with which she has become identified. The ACE should have had the courage to lay the blame for the recent confrontations at the doorstep of Kirkpatrick and the Reagan Administration, instead of lambasting justly frustrated student activists...