Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the other problems the committee will confront will be tougher to deal with, since they concern the premises of education, not administration. But Clark Byse, the committee's forthright and open-minded chairman, has encouraged his group to be responsive to the students-at-large, to meet objections openly, and give the Law School's students a sense of influence on their education which has heretofore been denied them...
...Unforgiven. In Salt Lake City, where he conferred with David McKay, head of the Mormon Church, Romney was at his forthright best. He attended an interfaith ministers' meeting and was fully prepared when the inevitable question arose about the inferior status of Negroes in the Mormon Church. "I was raised in the conviction that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are divinely inspired documents of the Creator, and all mankind is the child of God with basic rights," he said. "I have fought to eliminate racial discrimination. I want to be judged on the basis of my actions...
...editor, Alexis Viereck, is also forthright; witness this line of his short poems: "That I might fornicate with you." The line is actually more comic than shocking; his poetry of cruelty is really the poetry of humor in disguise. Viereck's other poems are more traditionally successful, and his imagery is more subtly sensual, although he consistently approaches cliche...
...attendance is voluntary, and Christianity, in so far as it comes up in the core program, is taught in an ecumenical spirit. "Our task is not to make Presbyterians, or even Christians," says President Kadel. The only guarantee the college makes is that the "Christian faith will have a forthright hearing...
...issue of the war itself, Ford backs the President, with minor reservations. "We say to the President: as long as you have a policy that's firm and forthright and steadfast against Communist aggression, we'll support you. We don't feel that we in the legislative branch in the minority party should determine strategy or tactics. I have many questions as to the need to expand our ground force commitments, especially when we have not used our air and naval superiority as adequately as I think we should. But the over-all position of strength has been good...