Word: outspoken
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SAMUEL P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshell were close friends in the early fifties, when they were both candidates for the Ph.D. in government at Harvard. Manshell, now a New York businessman and publisher, has been an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war for years, and was an influential leader of the McCarthy campaign in 1968. Huntington, now Thomas Professor of Government at Harvard, was a foreign policy advisor to Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign and a supporter of the government's program in Indochina. According to mutual friends, the two men disagreed so sharply over the war that they...
...Army, needless to say, will be glad to see the outspoken Daniel go. He has no specific plans, but says he intends to pursue his passion: trial...
...most citizens. The chairman of a House Appropriations Subcommittee often bragged that he never cut Hoover's budget requests. Films, television series and books chronicled the bureau's crime-fighting exploits. The bureau's image has begun to fuzz of late, thanks to Hoover's outspoken beliefs and unwillingness to brook criticism from any quarter. He admitted that he had not even spoken to Robert Kennedy during Kennedy's last six months as Attorney General and labeled Ramsey Clark "a jellyfish" and "a softie...
Although Fitzsimmons is well aware of his talents, he is far more confident than conceited. Outspoken and frank, he should be one of the more colorful sport personalities at Harvard. And as a player, well, as the man who once hit on 15-for-18-shots in a game against North Carolina State put it: "I'm shooting much better since I came to Harvard...
...ladies breaks the pattern slightly, it is Norah Lofts, simply because she is outspoken. Sample, on the relation between her art and life: "I've had two very happy marriages and before that an affair or two, and the only time I've seen a man on his knees, he's been chasing a collar stud." She is the most perceptive writer, the only one who can make a meaningful connection between her research and the dramatic situation. A grandmother at 66, she lives in Bury Saint Edmunds, the ancient market town where she was born...