Word: candidness
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...with an opportunity to speak directly to our 25 million readers in America and elsewhere. In a letter inviting the French President and other leaders to participate in this series, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan defined the aim: "We hope that these messages will be completely candid, that they will express how world leaders perceive America today, its past, its future, its virtues, its faults, and what they hope and expect from America in the years ahead." This enterprise, the letter noted, "is very much in the American tradition, going back to the Declaration of Independence, which invoked...
Though thousands of middle-aged victims of heart disease have undergone such operations in the past decade, this was no ordinary patient. He was William A. Nolen, M.D., author of the 1970 bestseller The Making of a Surgeon, a startlingly candid behind-the-scenes account of his surgical apprenticeship at New York's Bellevue Hospital, and other popular books. Not one to miss an opportunity to publish, the articulate Litchfield, Minn., surgeon has now made the most of his unfamiliar position at the other end of the scalpel. In a new book titled Surgeon Under the Knife (Coward, McCann...
...always, Nolen is refreshingly candid. He admits that he foolishly refused to take his first chest pains "seriously-though he had a history of high blood pressure, and his father died at 58 of heart disease. After an electrocardiogram finally confirmed that the pain was angina-a condition caused by an inadequate flow of blood to the heart muscles-an immediate concern, he allows, was whether he would be able to keep up an active sex life...
...Hanoi newspapers have lately been publishing a serial account of last year's conquest of South Viet Nam. Written by North Vietnamese Chief of Staff General Van Tien Dung-second in military command to Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap-the remarkably candid narrative offers an intimate glimpse of North Vietnamese thoughts on the successful offensive. Some of Dung's main disclosures...
...attacked the GSD's former dean and several past and present members of its faculty for offering only partial cooperation to its investigation. The review panel reported that "many" of its five members had a "lingering doubt" as to whether the current GSD dean, Maurice D. Kilbridge, was "as candid and forthcoming as he might have been...