Word: outspoken
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Knowles is also an outspoken critic of some present medical practices, and it is this quality that led to his rejection. At times he has criticized doctors' fees as excessive, and his concern for the poor has led him to suggest the need for all-inclusive health insurance. He preaches preventive medicine...
Married. Jacqueline Grennan, 42, outspoken president of Missouri's Webster College and a former nun, who received dispensation to leave the Roman Catholic sisterhood in 1967; and Paul Joseph Wexler, 49, Jewish recording-company executive; he for the second time; in a private ceremony conducted by a Jesuit priest; in Webster Groves...
...white plaster with a carnation embedded in each. Despite only two guarded references in the censored Greek press, Athenians have made their way to the gallery in droves. They come in twos and threes, solemn, quiet, and most make their comments in whispers. But a few have been more outspoken. Said one young man: "The wire will be snapped off, the plaster will break, and the carnation will give off its perfume again." Added a university professor, who has recently been dismissed from his post by the regime: "Let us hope that by next spring flowers will be able...
...Most Rev. James P. Shannon, 48, has a reputation for being a thinking man's bishop. A former president of the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, with a doctorate in history from Yale, Shannon marched at Selma and has been an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war. Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis since his consecration in 1965, he has served as deputy head of communications for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; he was the conference's press spokesman last fall when the U.S. bishops defended Pope Paul VI's encyclical...
...long before proclamations on racial justice were commonplace, the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches declared that segregation by religious organizations is "a scandal within the Body of Christ." Over the years, the council has been an outspoken apostle of brotherhood-although its ringing declarations have also insisted that racism should be fought by nonviolent means. Last week, however, an international Consultation on Racism in London organized by the Council suggested that if all else fails, even outright warfare is morally justified to end this moral blight...