Word: candidness
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...March 8] for the first time in so many years leaves this faithful avid TIME reader for more than a quarter of a century a little saddened. It is not unlike bidding farewell to a good neighbor who has been able to provide us with a periodic fresh and candid look at ourselves...
Even if Wilson was being candid in his explanation, however, it did seem strange for him to resign just when currencies were in turmoil (with the pound dipping below $2 for the first time ever) and the British economy was afflicted with rampant inflation (23.4%) and rising (now 5.6%) unemployment. It would have seemed that Wilson would have wanted to stay at least until April 6 for the presentation of a new budget that will reflect his new austerity policy. But Wilson may have wanted to step down early so as to give his successor maximum time to build...
...pointed out that contradiction, witnesses brought up other problems. Frank Morris, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, noted that many economists believe unemployment cannot be pushed below 4.5% without sharply boosting inflation.* But inflation was virtually unmentioned. Main reason: as the bill's more candid supporters admit, it would not be effective without wage and price controls-but they are anathema to labor unions. Significantly, Sar Levitan, director of the Center for Manpower Policy Studies at George Washington University, estimated at a previous hearing that to reach 3% unemployment in four years, national output of goods...
...makes little difference whether this mass is said in the formal shot's scholastic Latin or in the more familiar vulgate of the candid snap. A couple's expectations of their wedding pictures are formalized to the point where the behavior of the photographer can only have a minimal influence. In fact, many people have defined how the photographer should behave, cast him in a role in the ceremony...
Black and white, color, formal or candid, these photos are steeped in symbolic importance. The participants are visibly tense; they want to get it right, this eternal image. None of the men know what to do with their hands. One of Martin Schweig's brides clutches a bouquet and stares terrified into the camera. A row of Bachrach bridesmaids stand cracking smiles in their porcelain white faces, as alike as the ticky-tacky boxes they stand in front...