Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nickels & Poets. A big man, Duff is outspoken, disarmingly candid, unaffectedly informal. In Harrisburg, all anyone needs to talk to the governor is a nickel and a pay telephone. At the summer mansion at Indiantown Gap, he putters around the greenhouse and garden, casually returning the waves of passing neighbors. He subscribes to the Manchester Guardian, firmly supports bipartisan foreign policy. His other favorite reading is the seed catalogue and the Elizabethan poets, whom he can quote at length from memory...
Last week, after 16 years in the hot seat, outspoken 65-year-old Dr. Zook made his farewell speech to the council's annual convention in Chicago and prepared to move over. To take the place he had resigned, effective next January, the council named Dr. Arthur Stanton Adams, 53, president of the University of New Hampshire, a 1918 graduate of the Naval Academy, and onetime submarine skipper...
Despite its still cautious phraseology, the Times often clearly speaks its mind under Sulzberger and Merz. The editorial page has taken a consistent and strong editorial position in favor of the U.S.'s meeting its international responsibilities (e.g., the Marshall Plan). In 1938, in an outspoken editorial called "A Way of Life," the Times said that World War II was coming and that the U.S. would-and should-be involved. The Times also abandoned its traditional "independent Democratic" leanings to support Willkie in 1940, Dewey in 1948. Says Publisher Sulzberger, a registered Democrat: "I wish we could be just...
...prim side himself. Perkins bravely went to bat for his outspoken writers. Sometimes this got him into half-ridiculous situations. When he told steely old Charles Scribner II that there were only three really offensive words in one Hemingway manuscript, Scribner crisply asked which they were. Perkins could not bring himself to say; he had to write them...
...note left in the hotel room from which Matthiessen jumped indicated that his death had been at least partly the result of concern over political conditions in the world today. The 48-year-old professor was an outspoken advocate of Christian socialism...