Word: outspoken
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...Rainbow, as well as to such tunes as It's Only a Paper Moon and April in Paris; in an automobile accident; in Los Angeles. The New York City-born Harburg, who won an Academy Award in 1939 for Oz's Over the Rainbow, remained productive and outspoken through the '60s and '70s, deploring the newer generations of songsmiths for their "lack of craftsmanship, their imitative music and poor rhymes...
...daughters had retired for a 50-minute conversation, Marcos emerged looking unusually solemn. He later went on television to report that in private the Pope had expressed concern over "the influence of the liberal as well as the Marxist elements in the church." Said Bishop Francisco Claver, an outspoken anti-Marcos progressive: "The visit is go ing as we government." feared. It's being used by the government...
...California court leave a vacancy that Governor Jerry Brown might fill with a liberal jurist, further tipping the court's balance toward the left. For Deputy Treasury Secretary, Reagan's more conservative supporters are urging the appointment of New York Drug Store Magnate Lewis Lehrman, an outspoken proponent of a return to the gold standard. But Donald Regan, the designated Treasury Secretary, reportedly feels uncomfortable with Lehrman's strong views...
...have so many people with such an outlook begun lurching forth so aggressively in recent years? They quite likely have always suffered the censorial impulse. But they have been recently emboldened by the same resurgent moralistic mood that has enspirited evangelical fundamentalists and given form to the increasingly outspoken constituency of the Moral Majority. At another level, they probably hunger for some power over something, just as everybody supposedly does these days. Thus they are moved, as American Library Association President Peggy Sullivan says, "by a desperation to feel some control over what is close to their lives...
...immediately published in the Soviet press and for a while he gained prominence as a writer. He managed to cover up his expulsion from the party, and joined a writer's union. Then, he recalls, "I became a little brazen and began writing stories which were more and more outspoken. I decided to tell about the war I had seen, instead of about victories and roses covering our military road." His stories began to be censored and rejected; Uspensky shifted into translating foreign works...