Word: candidness
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Some Protestants were irritated by the omissions, deeming the Pope less than candid. Nonetheless, the self-censorship seemed to fit John Paul's overall strategy of being as diplomatic as possible on Dutch soil and making more gestures of mollification toward his critics than is customary. Despite the disappointments on the trip, he was not defiant but uncharacteristically plaintive and conciliatory. At the youth rally in Amersfoort, he pleaded, "You must continue to tell us everything honestly. But you must also listen to our criticisms...
Despite the author's early myopia about wealth and poverty, her book is an astonishingly candid war diary of will vs. psychosis and despair. True, the record glistens with names: William Randolph Hearst, Constance Bennett, the Prince of Wales and, of course, a parade of Vanderbilts and Whitneys. But they are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. Once Upon a Time is no clothbound gossip column, and its heroine is not the triumphant lady of the commercials, with shiny eyes and fixed grin. She is the buried child of long, long ago, still eager to please, still...
...future course that would couple a strong defense establishment with a much enhanced economic aid program, aimed at stimulating Third World entrepreneurship and two-way trade. Nixon's proposals have been hailed as sound if not original. But his appraisal of his own stewardship sometimes seems more generous than candid...
...George Will has also changed but believes he has not. Will first surfaced as a conservative polemicist. On becoming a highly articulate TV interviewer, he crowded his guests, suggesting that they were not sufficiently militant about intervening in Lebanon, Syria or Nicaragua. If Will emerged seeming bolder and more candid than the person he interviewed, his guest--a politician, a bureaucrat--usually had the disadvantage of being constrained by policy or responsible for the consequences of his words in a way that Will was not. Nowadays, as a regular commentator on ABC's Evening News, Will finds his allotted...
Both sides were adroit enough at small talk to placate the headline-hungry press. In a lively, candid meeting with reporters before the first session, Karpov acknowledged that Mikhail Gorbachev was demonstrating leadership even before Chernenko died. Said Karpov: "He presided over the meeting of the Politburo that approved (my) instructions." Karpov ducked, however, a follow- up question on whether Chernenko had been expected to remain alive throughout | the talks. The Soviets ushered photographers gracefully into and out of the opening of their session. The U.S., by contrast, herded cameramen out with a loud countdown of "five . . . four . . . three...