Word: forthrightness
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Last week the Weekly continued its attack, said "its importance warrants full discussion by the Yale public." And in The Harkness Hoot, newest, most forthright of Yale journals, appeared "The Elks in Our Midst," by Richard S. Childs, Yale junior, suggesting that the Senior Societies be abolished by boycott, that the Junior class refrain from appearing "like slaves for sale upon the campus on Tap Day." The Yale Daily News, edited by juniors, and whose chairman is automatically in line for tapping, had printed Keysman Hobson's letter, and reprinted the Weekly editorials. Last week, making no mention...
...Monkey Wife Author John Collier has written a more forthright satire than did David Garnett in Lady Into Fox, but the tone of the two books is similar. You may be shocked by some of Author Collier's implications; never by what he says. Nothing is here for tears; plenty for a smile...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
Brahms' Symphony No. 4 by the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Conductor Max Fiedler (Brunswick, $9)-A faithful, forthright performance by an old Boston Symphony leader (1908-12) who knew the composer...
Said Dean Mendell: "The initiative and responsibility for results is placed more squarely on the student than in the past." But it is in no way so forthright as Chicago's change, announced last November (TIME, Dec. 1) by Yale's prodigy, young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. And Dean Jones's challenge still holds: the Yale student still must take Latin or Greek to get his A. B. degree...