Word: outspoken
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...spoke favorably on numerous occasions, when running for Governor, of both George Wallace and Lester Maddox, two of the foremost symbols of the relationship between racial hatred and political success in the pre-1970s South. More recently, Carter has bitterly attacked Maddox, now one of his most outspoken Georgia critics...
These episodes have cast longer shadows with white Democratic liberals than with blacks, many of whom understand the conditions and atmosphere in which Carter grew up and launched his political career. Referring to Carter's outspoken opposition to discrimination, Andy Young says: "In Sumter County you could literally get killed for saying the kind of things Jimmy...
...oldfashioned, ripping Fleet Street row. The issue: press treatment of the abrupt resignation from the Labor Party of Lord George-Brown, 61, the hard-drinking, outspoken former British Foreign Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Affairs Minister. A member of the House of Lords since 1970, George-Brown went on TV to announce his decision to quit the party after 40 years. The move, prompted by George-Brown's fear that press freedom would be threatened by a Labor proposal requiring all journalists to join a union, was made only after considerable personal turmoil-and some alcoholic fortification. After...
...emigre from the Business School, Kilbridge took over the acting deanship of the faltering and strife-ridden GSD in 1969, dropping into the controversy surrounding the GSD's decision not to rehire a popular but outspoken then assistant professor of City Planning, Chester W. Hartman...
...machine's contributions to investigative journalism are ambiguous. The copier may have helped disgruntled leakers illuminate a few dark Government and corporate secrets, but it has also spurred bureaucrats to even greater taciturnity. After all, what malefactor in his right mind would put anything incriminating-or even refreshingly outspoken-on paper nowadays? In addition, the copier's ability to turn confidential communications into bestsellers has encouraged memo drafters everywhere to strive for blandness. Says Professor Anthony Athos of the Harvard Business School: "When the writer knows that through the magic of Xerox many people will see what...