Word: forthrightness
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...book’s contents, however, are not nearly as fun as its provocative title. The majority of the essays bear names with an Ivy League pedigree, and taken individually, are lucid and forthright. However, the collection lacks the sparkle of the overarching theme. Sternberg perhaps promises too much by trying to coax life from authors who suffer from a terminal excess of terminology. Though their explanations are educated, each essay that actually tackles the prescribed question proposes new working definitions to frame an answer...
Robert Baden-Powell, the British military hero who founded the Boy Scouts, had an intense interest in teenage boys and their bodies. This interest expressed itself with a forthright innocence that to our post-Freudian sensibilities seems to have pretty clear sexual overtones. There is no evidence that Baden-Powell ever acted on this aspect of his enthusiasm for youth, and scouting enthusiasts both deny and resent the implication. But the specter of what was on Baden-Powell's mind might well make modern American parents reluctant to send their sons off for a wholesome weekend in the woods with...
...effort to reassure clients, Andersen's partners fired the lead auditor on the Enron account, David Duncan, in January and admitted to Congress later in the month that potentially incriminating documents had been shredded. But suspicion that Andersen was not exactly forthright about the level of involvement of several executives was stoked by the revelation that Nancy Temple, a lawyer with the company, sent a memo reminding employees of Andersen's document-retention policies on Oct. 12. The memo, observers suspect, was a tacit order to start the shredding...
...effort to reassure clients, Andersen's partners fired the lead auditor on the Enron account, David Duncan, in January and admitted to Congress later in the month that potentially incriminating documents had been shredded. But suspicion that Andersen was not exactly forthright about the level of involvement of several executives was stoked by the revelation that Nancy Temple, a lawyer with the company, sent a memo reminding employees of Andersen's document-retention policies on Oct. 12. The memo, observers suspect, was a tacit order to start the shredding...
...content of The Women’s Guide is convincingly adamant about the need to prevent collective “amnesia” with regards to the rocky history of women at Harvard and to provide a forthright discussion of gender issues facing women (and men) today. But the back cover plea to find “female readers” begins on the defensive, replying to an invisible critic that “this book is in fact more than The Unofficial Guide without the restaurant listings.” With such unprovoked hostility, the female reader is left...