Word: candidness
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...attributed it to the temperament he had inherited from his Greek immigrant parents, whose surname was originally Petropoulos. Said the friend: "Everything Peterson said came from the heart. The key to the man is his Greek origin. No Anglo-Saxon could ever have made such an emotional and candid statement...
...served with distinction as a British commando officer in World War II, returned to star in more than 60 films, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal of a pathetic military impostor. His candid, bestselling memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses) abound with lightly told anecdotes of Errol Flynn's drunken revels and Greta Garbo's nude swims. Niven once described Hollywood as a "hotbed of false values. . . but it was fascinating, and if you were...
...affair immediately put new pressure on a few key Reagan advisers. Stockman's candid observations about the Administration's juggling of budget statistics, quoted in the Atlantic in December 1981, had nearly cost him his job. Now he not only admitted talking to Barrett about the "pilfered" Carter debate book but conceded that he boasted on the very day of the debate about having used it. In a story buried on page 15 of the Elkhart, Ind., Truth newspaper, Stockman, then a Congressman from Michigan, was reported to have told a luncheon audience in Cassopolis, Mich., just what...
Looking pale, Chernenko galvanized the conference with a candid appeal for reform in Soviet society. Inveighing against many ills, including trite propaganda, red tape, "sponging, bribe taking and money grubbing," he demanded a "new atmosphere of intolerance" ideologically to combat what he called a U.S.-sponsored program of "psychological warfare" against the Soviets...
Barrett is equally candid about Reagan, whom he admires and expects to run again. As the book's title implies, Barrett sees Reagan as intuitive, at times impulsive. He discerns shortcomings even in the man's virtues: the President's belief in personal charity obstructs his understanding of the need for Government-run social justice programs; his boundless optimism can make him unable to hear, let alone accept, bad news on budget deficits. Though Barrett insists that Reagan is complex, the book portrays a man whose views are based largely on personal experience and whose approach...