Word: outspoken
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...Paulo, search as they might for a suitable meeting hall, the congress organizers found nothing available. When the organizers finally rented a hall in Rio, Guanabara State Governor Carlos Lacerda, a onetime leftist who has become the most outspoken enemy of the Communists in all Brazil, took his own steps. First he sent his military aides to see President Goulart's military aides and ask what would be the presidential reaction if he banned the congress altogether. Answer: What are you waiting...
Shyest of all intellectuals in the Soviet Union was Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, usually the most outspoken of the lot. Evtushenko had been singled out* by Khrushchev for a scathing attack because of the poet's popularity in the West. After the Premier's blast, he went into seclusion with his wife in a dacha south of Moscow, and last week let word circulate that he had indefinitely "postponed" long-scheduled trips to Italy...
...outspoken faculty member discussed the reasons the "Holyoke image" has remained largely unchanged. "The college seems to feel that it can have only one image which will be acceptable to the general public-an image of 'proper gentility.'" Mount Holyoke has tried to legislate this image into existence, and while this attempt has been fairly successful, it has had been fairly successful, it has had some unfortunate consequence...
...South Africa's Parliament for ten years, he left politics to run the business after his father's death in 1957. Because he controls South Africa's chief source of foreign exchange, and is a man with an international reputation, the nationalist government endures his outspoken appeal for South Africa to rejoin the Commonwealth and to treat its black Africans better...
...Washington submitted all these names on a list of a dozen speakers it proposed to invite for an extracurricular lecture series. Last week Monsignor Joseph McAllister, the university's vice rector, acknowledged that he had rejected Murray, Weigel, Diekmann and Küng. Reason: all have been "outspoken on matters of concern to the Vatican Council" (which is currently in adjournment), and he did not think that the university should give them a public platform...