Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young President. Educated at Halifax's Dalhousie University and the Harvard Law School, Smith taught law at Dalhousie, at 37 became Canada's youngest university president (University of Manitoba), has headed the University of Toronto since 1945. There he got a reputation for phrasemaking and outspoken intolerance of parents who send their children to college "just to prove there's nothing wrong with them." He told incoming students: "If you have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker...
...lightheartedness, El Creeps under Cabot has been an outspoken, effective conciliator between the community's three often-differing ethnic groups: the Indian, the Spanish, and what the Taosenos call the "Anglo." Says Editor Cabot: "Being the only paper in a valley where there are three completely different outlooks is something like sitting on a keg of powder in a dark room. You know that it's dangerous to light a match, but you have to do it to see where...
...Official Ralph Bunche, retired Baseball Star Jack Robinson and A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, urging the Administration to stand pat for a strong bill. From such leading Negro newspapers as the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political bed with [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland we be, gin to wonder about Mr. Wilkins...
Should a house of prayer be designed by a man who prays? Not necessarily, says Architect Heinz Rau, a German Jew raised in an orthodox family, and now (at 61) an outspoken atheist. Says he: "What is needed in a house of prayer is harmonious proportion and serene atmosphere. Whether an architect succeeds in creating these is a measure of the architect's professional capabilities, and not of his religious beliefs. After all, there isn't much difference in atmosphere between St. Mark's in Venice and a synagogue...
...Lodge. Later, Treasury officials put up the cost of a new black leather chair ($116.50) for Humphrey's hand-picked successor, Lawyer-Financier Robert Anderson, 47, onetime (1954-55) Deputy Defense Secretary. The next black-chair souvenir, Washington suspected, will go to another businessman turned Administration stalwart, outgoing, outspoken Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson-as soon as the Administration can find a good and willing man (TIME, July 29) to fill the gaping vacancy...