Word: outspoken
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...show take a critical stance toward America. Last week, for instance, his guests included: Townsend H?opes, whose book. The Limits of Intervention, discusses the mistakes the government made which got us into Vietnam: Harvard's own George Wald and columnist Jimmy Breslin, both of whom have been outspoken (in different ways) about America's faults: and Jonathan Miller, one of whose topics was myths Americans have created about themselves. The only guest who came close to balancing out the list was Kevin Phillips, anther of The Emerging Republican Majority and an important assistant in Nixon's Justice Department...
...Dean Rusk, the past nine years have combined adversity and irony in uncommon measure. Never outspoken, he endured silently the taunts of John Kennedy's house intellectuals and the attacks of Lyndon Johnson's congressional opponents. Never wealthy, he suffered financially from his appointment as Secretary of State, struggling to meet a Cabinet officer's expenses while educating his children...
...most outspoken hawk of all is a flamboyant newcomer to Israeli politics who bears one of the most celebrated names in Israeli history. He is Major General Ezer Weizman, 45, the former commander of the Israeli air force and the nephew of the late Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President (Ezer dropped the second "n" as a gesture of independence). A member of the irredentist Gahal party, whose representation in the Cabinet increased from two to six, Weizman shed his uniform only last week to become Transportation Minister...
...similar conflict has begun to appear in the Jewish faith. "The world teeters and Judaism peters," writes Jewish Theological Seminary Graduate Ben Hollander in an outspoken criticism of Jewish seminary attitudes. "Flames flare close; horrors in Harlem, clashes at Columbia. But the seminary inscrutably stands proclaiming its message. The encyclopaedia must learn to get off the shelf and start walking and talking like...
...United Nations. Eager to borrow big money from Robert McNamara's World Bank and other international banks the U.N. shook up the Mekong management two months ago in a way intended to heighten its appeal to Western capitalists and Asian Communists alike. Dr. C. Hart Schaaf, 57, an outspoken and visionary Indiana professor who in ten years as chief executive became known as "Mr. Mekong," was reassigned to Ceylon. U.N. executives felt that the chief should be non-American, particularly if the project is ultimately to draw the support of North Viet Nam. They selected Switzerland's Victor...