Word: outspoken
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Hazarding Revenge. The regime's riposte was quick. Snapped a party zealot: "What the party needs is unity and not intellectuals who produce neither bread nor steel but only chitchat." Six of the more outspoken students were suspended from the university, and Kolakowski was expelled from the party and accused of a long list of "crimes" including having "sat down to tea with Cardinal Wyszynski," the Polish primate, and having had a prolonged meeting with American Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University. When a group of Poland's leading artists and writers wrote letters to the Politburo demanding...
...boys mature more slowly than girls - physically they are a year behind at the age of six, 18 months behind at nine. Boys are more susceptible to stress and trauma, as shown by higher death and illness rates in infancy; yet they are encouraged to be more aggressive, independent, outspoken and unemotional...
Football coach John Yovicsin is not an outspoken man. When he expresses an opinion in public, there is good cause to listen...
...when Zhivkov and Brezhnev raised the hint of a conference again last week, they came under a barrage of counterfire. Snapped Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu: "Nothing should be done to deepen the divergencies and increase the threat of a split." The Italian and North Korean delegations were equally outspoken in their opposition, while Yugoslavs, Poles, Cubans and North Vietnamese maintained a stony silence. The only big parties to endorse the idea were those of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and France...
...many, Seltzer's vision smacked of drama schoolery, which nearly everyone was against. On the Faculty, William Alfred was perhaps the most outspoken opponent of drama courses at the Loeb. Alfred also frowned on professionalism--"the aim of the University is to make students responsible for big plants," he said; "the theatre will get that way, but it will take time...