Word: candidness
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...Soviet spokesman's candid views on relations with...
Officials characterized the dinner as candid and beneficial, but few concrete proposals were agreed upon...
...work from Harvard University reiterates many of the author's favorite themes in an abridged volume far more sprightly than the 800 page behemoth available in late August. Here we find that same world of scholarly contemplation, term bills and drop add schedules portrayed in firm bureaucratic prose and candid snap shots of Widener Library. Absent are the upper-level conference course descriptions, the Department of Biophysics faculty listing and the information on January examinations. The result is a version of the classic Register better suited to the summer months, if not quite appropriate for the beach...
...chillingly candid discussion of nuclear options mean that the U.S. thinks a nuclear war is winnable? "This notion has no place in our strategy," insisted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Said he: "We see nuclear weapons only as a way of discouraging the Soviets from thinking that they could ever resort to them. That is exactly why we must have a capability for a protracted response-to demonstrate that our strategic forces could survive Soviet strikes over an extended period...
Lloyd Cutler, 64, former White House counsel, on the legal profession: "We have not convinced the public of our intellectual honesty. We are regarded as more canny than candid, more as servants of our prince, as mouthpieces or hired guns, than as servants of our consciences...