Word: outspokenly
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Aside from Bok, Calkins was the most active and outspoken member of the Corporation during his tenure. He helped forward the Harvard-Radcliffe joiner and played a role in overhauling Harvard's administration in the early 1970s. Calkins spearheaded reforms in Harvard's investment policy, creating Harvard's "intensive dialogue" strategy, designed to improve the South African operations of companies in which Harvard invests...
Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, an outspoken proponent of the CLS movement, challenged the basis of the Tarullo decision...
Demographers somewhat inelegantly refer to the Baby Boom generation as "the pig in the python," a moving bulge that distorts and distends everything around it as it rumbles through the stages of life. Locked together in a crowded race, many Boomers have learned to use their elbows. The most outspoken members retain a kind of generational arrogance epitomized by Stockman's egregious assertion in his newly published memoirs (The Triumph of Politics; Harper & Row) that the so-called Reagan Revolution was in fact not Reagan's: "It was mine...
Fiedler, 49, rose to prominence as an outspoken opponent of school busing. She bills herself as the candidate most loyal to President Reagan and hammers away at Zschau's anti-Administration stands on such issues as the MX missile and aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua (though Zschau has reversed himself to endorse contra...
...common threads run through Rifkin's peripatetic career, they are energy and anti-Establishment fervor. As an economics major at the University of Pennsylvania, he was an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War. In the 1970s he founded and led the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in efforts to finance "revolutionary alternatives" to the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, which he considered to be too commercialized. By 1977 Rifkin had become embroiled in the growing controversy over the new recombinant-DNA technology and was ready to hit full stride. In his book Who Should Play God, published that year, he naively expressed concern...