Word: candidness
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...Candid talk of censorship
This may be a bad time to add to your burden, but we have always been candid with each other. The capital is beginning to panic. There is good economic news, and there seems to be nothing we can do to stop it. Lord knows we've tried. Next thing you know, peace will be breaking out. For a city devoted to trouble, good news can mean disaster, even unemployment...
...Madrid revealed his own view of himself in an unusually candid description written in response to a request from TIME. "I consider myself to be of normal, serene temperament, but I become enthused or moved by interesting questions or things that impress me," he wrote. "I prefer dealing with people to solitude, but once in a while I appreciate being alone with myself and my reflections. I have always been concerned with equilibrium and avoiding easy irritation or depression. I am fundamentally an optimist...
Right now he is a busy young god. He is the author of a new book, Far from Denmark (Little, Brown; $24.95), part autobiography, part candid, intelligent comment on performing and choreographing. In the past five years he has become an accomplished dance maker. In the next few months he will be completing new works for the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Hartford Ballet, as well as for City Ballet. This week the curtain goes up at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on his first attempt at Broadway choreography: the dances in a revival of George Balanchine...
...personal relationships: old bosses are equals, old pals are subordinates who must sometimes be disappointed. "It's a tough time now. We still think that Mr. B. will walk in Tuesday at 11," he says. He shifts the pillows under his back and adds in his blunt, candid way, "I don't know how the hell I'll do it all, but I can exercise diplomacy like nobody else...