Word: outspokenness
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...sensitive depiction of the ravages of industrialization at the expense of the countryside, its villages and churches. Writers and poets have a special standing in the Soviet Union, and Raisa Gorbachev is reportedly one of his fans. He rails against the decline of "human values," and as an outspoken supporter of the nascent Green environmental movement, he is active in the campaign to save the purity of Lake Baikal. In light of his anti-Western, nationalist and anti-Semitic views, his appointment to the Presidential Council surprised many. Though Rasputin is not a member of the Communist Party, Gorbachev...
Former Secretary of Education and current drug policy adviser William Bennett, one of President Derek C. Bok's most outspoken critics, said in an interview with The Crimson today that although he disagrees with Bok, the president's resignation will be a loss to Harvard...
While members of the arts community have decried the Helms-sponsoredregulations, an aide to the outspoken conservativesenator said last week that the guidelines werereasonable...
...startling and rapid changes in Eastern Europe. But political reforms were emphatically rejected earlier this month in a closed session of the 8th plenum of Vietnam's Communist Party. While the plenum promised to revitalize the party's frayed relations with the people, it also fired an outspoken liberal member of the Politburo, Tran Xuan Bach. That leaves only one liberal in the 13-member ruling body, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach...
...voice in how their universities are run. Hundreds of professors have been fired, some because they were Communist Party loyalists, others because students deemed them incompetent or uninspiring. At Prague's Academy of Fine Arts, students have , dismissed all but two of their 39 instructors. They have hired an outspoken new rector: Milan Knizak, 50, a long-haired multimedia artist who sports three earrings in each ear. Knizak has rejected the school's slogan, which said the purpose of art was to help build socialism. Declares Knizak: "The artist is responsible only to himself...