Word: candidness
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...Candid Painting: American Genre 1950-1975" at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln through December 7 surveys the development of realism, (as opposed to Pop or Super-Realism), including such names as Alice Neel and Elaine deKooning...
...concerned Gerald Ford met with some of his closest old friends and domestic advisers three weeks ago for a bare-knuckle assessment of what had gone wrong with his presidency. During the year of transition from the trauma of the Nixon Administration, his open and candid manner had calmed and reassured the nation. But then his fortunes had changed. His popularity fell to a low 47% in the Gallup poll late in October. His tireless campaigning for election drew yawns from even the party faithful. Ronald Reagan was challenging him on the right and moving up in the polls. More...
...attain an office for which he was, if anything, overqualified. He was subjected to relentless, often brutal questioning by his congressional investigators. Yet after less than a year in office he announced last week that "it's just not worth it" to remain on the ticket. He was candid about the reasons for his decision. "I came down to Washington to serve the country I love and to help in solving the problems which we face. I did not come down to get caught up in party squabbles. I came here to help the President, not to complicate...
...CHUL members are happy with the decision, however. Some masters grumbled last week that open meetings will curtail candid discussion and make CHUL sessions meaningless. Such arguments don't really hold much water. The CHUL was established in 1969 purely as a sounding board for College policies. The CHUL discusses House-related issues and makes recommendations to the dean of the Faculty. The dean can do what he wants at that point--either accept or reject the CHUL's recommendation. If there is anything these masters should fear from open meetings, it's that students may see just how little...
...most Americans, Gerald R. Ford is a commoner of uncommon candor, an Everyman struggling manfully with the job of President. To Reporter Richard Reeves, Ford is "slow, unimaginative and not very articulate"-and none too candid either. In A Ford, Not a Lincoln (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), a new and widely discussed account of Ford's first 100 days, Reeves calls Ford's rise to the presidency "a triumph of lowest-common-denominator politics, the survival of the man without enemies, the least objectionable alternative." He adds: "The President of the U.S. is just another...