Word: candidness
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...institutional approach to promoting discussion on diversity. Asked to discuss a topic as emotionally charged as racism (couched in the safe term of "diversity") in an official setting of proctor groups and surrounded by peers who are still strangers, first-years could not be expected to engage in truly candid discussion. Even if important issues were discussed, they were probably not discussed with the brutal honesty of two co-workers who could speak their mind without the worry of offending each other...
Others were more candid. Mark Gauthier, a chaplain for the United Ministry at Harvard, said the sculpture is inappropriate because it is out of keeping with Harvard tradition...
Children of gays are most often born to parents in heterosexual marriages who subsequently come out. That has always been true, except for the coming- out part. Today's gay father or mother is much more apt than those of a generation ago to be candid, so that a much larger percentage of today's children who have gay parents grow up aware that they do. Most of the rest are born to lesbians via artificial insemination; estimates of how many such babies have been born range from a thousand or so to tens of thousands. At Pacific Reproductive Services...
Rudenstine called his former spokesperson "agood person, an excellent person...very candid anddirect...
...last year's Commencement address, recently republished in the "Handbook," Rudenstine correctly argued that historical experience suggests a monocultural community is impossible: "If we look closely at our larger American society (and if we are candid with ourselves), we cannot fail to notice that vast segments of our population live, socialize and even work with people who have racial, religious or cultural characteristics very similar...