Word: candidness
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Nevertheless, as the more candid Republican strategists study the McGovern phenomenon, they are not at all as euphoric about the prospect of taking him on as they once professed to be. As a highly partisan observer of the McGovern operation in Miami Beach, Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton was impressed. Said he: "I came down here to take back the word that this is a force to be reckoned with-and you'd better believe it. There is a great unknown out there...
...party line. Even so, USA contains more information, more sophisticated interpretation and less doctrinaire doubletalk than any other official Soviet publication. "Telling and hearing the truth, as we see it, about the U.S. will not harm our society," says Arbatov. Still, USA is considered a bit too candid for the masses: it is not sold on any newsstand in the U.S.S.R. Its circulation is limited to 32,000 copies, mostly among the country's political and managerial leadership...
...peace: the spreading field of blue, Mallarme's azure, the color of space and of openness, dapple with swift strokes of green, with a black line rising through it like the faintly swaying mast of a ship. In such work, Motherwell's address to sensation is marvelously candid. "In a way," he says, "painting is like wine: it is as old, as sim ple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of ex pression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential...
...often ungentlemanly competition for the Nobel Prize and the other honors that follow in its wake. This is apparent in the pell-mell rush to publish results of experiments-some of them later proved faulty-in scientific journals just to establish priority of discovery. In his unusually candid book The Double Helix, Nobel Prizewinner James Watson confessed to another questionable practice. Determined to unravel the complex structure of the DNA molecule before Caltech's famed chemist Linus Pauling got to it, Watson and one of his co-winners, Francis Crick, deliberately withheld information from Pauling that might have helped...
...think Bennington was looking for someone-some ones-who seem to be able to take a job where there are controversies with students and to behave in a way that can be seen as candid," Gail said...