Word: candidness
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...details: in the petals of a cornflower or the veins of an elecampane leaf, in the grain of stone or the purling of a brook. That is why the details of Pre-Raphaelite landscape, ostensibly the fruit of candid observation, take on such a hortatory, didactic air. One knows, looking at Millais's portrait of Ruskin in his sober frock coat on the rocky verge of a Scots cascade, that every wrinkle of the gray gneissic crag he stands on is meant to speak of the geological span of the creation and to imply a sense of time...
...when Clifford, then an unknown St. Louis lawyer, first met Truman, then an undistinguished Missouri Senator. Truman's open face struck Clifford, who described the moment last week. "Some people's faces mask their character. Truman's face revealed his character: frank, open, considerate, strong, candid, and with what John Kennedy used to describe as 'vigah...
...then visited 114 companies that range in size from Celestial Seasonings, the herbal-tea maker, which has 200 workers, to IBM, the largest computer manufacturer, with 218,000 employees. Besides studying company-benefit brochures and interviewing factory workers and executives, the authors poked around cafeterias and corridors listening for candid comments...
...close friends say no. To them, Hart can be warm and trusting, perhaps too much so. "When he trusts somebody, he is very candid," says Denver Lawyer Hal Haddon, who has known Hart since 1968. "And some of the people he trusts are going to burn him publicly. He's not been burned as much as he is going to be burned...
Officially, the Federal Government has neither rejected nor endorsed the A.H.A. dietary recommendations, nor has it taken a position on whether foodmakers should adopt more candid labeling. Since 1980, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have published a brochure offering Americans the following general recommendation: "Avoid too much fat, saturated fat and cholesterol." Throughout this year, officials of both departments are meeting with scientists to discuss whether or not this recommendation should be made more stringent and specific, in light of the N.H.L.B.I. findings. "The time has come for the Federal Government to make some pronouncement...