Word: candidness
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Chorus members were candid in their appraisal of Manilow and his music. Junior Evan C. Stults, chorus personal manager, called the event "an interesting sociological experience...
...heard and seen it all before. The media have spent much of the last ten years waging an all--out campaign attempting to expose cults and the bizarre processes by which they transform normal kids into zombies. Ranging from candid autobiographies of ex-moontes to last year's Ticket to Heaven, the steady stream of exposes has touched a popular nerve. Yet concern has reached a threshhold level. What the market needs now is a movie that reveals the cure, and not just the prognosis...
...accurate and candid about himself as he is about everyone else, and over and over he owns up to occasions when his initial enthusiasm led him astray. An early version of Island Fling "really wasn 't good enough and was curiously overwritten," he decides. "I seem, in later years, to have lost my gift for economy. This has been, and in the future must continue to be, remedied." It is a rare writer who is his own best critic...
Many blacks complain that they do not feel they are a significant part of campus life. I was privy to this emotion in a small class I taught last semester. I had encouraged the young whites and blacks to be candid about the realities of their relationships here. What ensued was sudden and torrential. The blacks said they found it difficult to consider this their university. The whites said they were trying to understand. One white youngster was especially disarming. "I have nothing against you," he said of the blacks. "In fact, I like you. I think if there were...
Woodruff is perceived by colleagues as fair, decent and ingratiatingly candid. Her book, written with Washington Journalist Kathleen Maxa, is thoughtful if often inconclusive about common ethical problems for journalists: How much can one socialize with sources? How should one tell a negative story about a friend? Why is so much effort and air time devoted to ephemera rather than enduring problems...