Word: outspoken
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...School faculty yesterday approved a new Learning Environments program, despite the outspoken opposition of a dozen of its members...
...Whatever. On occasion, Meredith does not mind dealing in personalities. Indeed, during his days with the Cowboys he was one of the most acute and outspoken of pro ballplayers. During the Minnesota-Kansas City game he remarked: "If Minnesota's Bud Grant and my old coach, Tom Landry, were in a personality contest, they'd have trouble coming up with a winner...
Died. Fritz von Unruh, 85, German dramatist, novelist and poet famed in the 1920s for his outspoken opposition to militarism; of a stroke; in Diez, Germany. Unruh's moving description of the battle of Verdun in Way of Sacrifice became classic testimony to the cruelty of war. A founder of several anti-Hitler organizations and delegate in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic, Unruh was a staunch anti-Nazi and went into voluntary exile, first in France, then in the U.S., refusing Hitler's offer to make him "the modern Schiller." Upon returning home in 1948, he spoke...
Ebert's colleagues describe him as a staunch liberal, a mediator rather than a pusher, a listener rather than a dictator. He has assumed an outspoken political position on the war-much to the chagrin of older conservative alumni-and last October he joined a group from the Med School handing out leaflets at the Moratorium rally...
Kaysen has been one of the most outspoken advocates of pure scholarship-the more rigorous the better. His latest book concludes that universities like Harvard are financially doomed if they continue to train undergraduates. Instead, he suggests the universities immediately be turned into graduate schools...