Word: outspoken
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Among ten legislators abstaining from the vote on Maddox was Julian Bond, 26, the bright, outspoken Negro who finally gained his seat in the State House of Representatives after twice being deprived of it because of his public advocacy of draft-card burning. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that Bond must be seated and, along with ten other Negroes, he took his place in the Georgia legislature. "I don't think," philosophized Bond, "most members of the house care at this point whether I'm here or not-and that's the attitude I want them...
...ranks on the Baathist books as a mere deputy secretary-general of the party. Jadid belongs to the minority Alawite sect of Syrian Mohammedanism, which represents only 10% of the population, and fears that the Sunnite majority-a more orthodox sect-might rebel if he became too publicly outspoken. Actually, he need not say much: the statements of his peers are sufficiently intemperate to embrace his views. Says Premier Zayyen in tones ominously Pekingese: "We are crushing all parasite and opportunist elements that stand between the Arab revolution and the Arab masses...
Chance to Get Away. It had to happen, says Pleasants, if only as an antidote to the dulling sameness of the note-perfect performances. A boldly outspoken theorist, Pleasants goes so far as to say that this straitjacket is so confining that some pop vocalists such as Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, whose jazz improvisations are a direct counterpart of bel canto, are "technically better than most opera singers." The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, whom he regards as the prima donna of pop, "is so naturally placed that she can sing more in a week than most opera singers...
...Greedy. Even Humphrey, known for his often uncritical and generally outspoken support of Great Society innovations, seemed to be having some second thoughts. "Those programs," he said in an interview, "aren't going to be fulfilled in any one year. I've told a number of my friends, don't look upon the Great Society as if it is a smorgasbord, where you have to come and fill yourself to a point where you are literally ill at the first feast. There will still be plenty if you continue to take it in reasonable amounts year after...
...letter pointed out that "a significant and growing number of our contemporaries are deeply troubled about the posture of their Government in Vietnam ... there are many who are deeply troubled for every one who has been outspoken in dissent...