Word: candidness
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...listen and I hear. He says he does not need what he now views, possesses, holds, enjoys, depends on; and yet the truth, I think, is that he does. He does need life set up, protected, decorated, ordered in this fashion. He cannot live without it. Nor, to be candid, do I think that he does genuinely believe that the needs he hears of, and the abstract agonies to which his syllables of decency reply, are genuine needs and actual and unquestioned agonies. I do not think that he can dare to give belief to this. I think that...
...evenhandedness, fair-mindedness and rational solutions find themselves instantly suspect for their naiveté. The most egregious assumption that outsiders make is that their detachment gives them superior wisdom. In fact, the intractable problems of the Middle East have been endlessly considered and eloquently argued on both sides. In candid private moments, Israeli leaders can discuss Arab rights and needs with sympathy and understanding. On the Arab side, Hussein has acted with courageous prudence, Feisal with caution, and Sadat has proved a more subtle and rational strategist than Nasser. On almost every major issue, solutions that could be made palatable...
Nixon surrendered his private tape recordings to Judges Sirica out of fear, according to newspaper and television reports. The story, by way of "candid White House officials," is that Nixon and his aides completely underestimated the virulence of the public reaction to Richardson's resignation and the dismissals of Ruckelshaus and Cox. Talk of impeachment led him to the conclusion that he had better "obey...
This type of behavior is not unexpected from the president. But what is distressing is the way he has completely deceived the news agencies. There hasn't been a "candid White House official" in the five years that Nixon has been in office. Only a fool could believe that one has now suddenly arisen to leak honest stories to the American public. But that is the way the national press has been talking. As so often in the past, it has once again let this country down...
What a great debt we all owe to the great philosophers! Yet, to be candid about it, in these great times who needs another great debt? For the wisdom of men like Rousseau, Nietzsche, Hegel tends to be preserved in sedimentary chapters of books more likely to be found in the attic than on the coffee table. Lives there a middlebrow who does not resent the great philosophers...