Word: candidness
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...equal full employment. But he would probably mean lower productivity and slower growth." Is this the kind of economy and society that the people want? Voters cannot judge intelligently until they know more about the real cost -and who would pay exactly how much. McGovern must be both more candid and more precise on those passion-rousing issues, which concern not only the pocketbook but also the whole future direction of American society...
...management of the Boston Globe assembled the editorial staff for a candid self-study session at the Brandegee estate of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences University. One result was formation of a six-reporter "Brandegee goose-'em committee," the purpose of which was to "keep editors on their toes, to keep them mad and unsatisfied." That restless spirit has been typical of the Globe in recent years, and this week the paper got another prod toward self-improvement: the death of its traditional rival, the Herald Traveler...
Marya Mannes, L.H.D., writer. Her ideas are unequivocal, her feelings passionate, her words candid, her courage boundless...
Died. Violette Leduc, 65, French novelist, best known for her candid autobiography, La Bâtarde (The Bastard); of cancer; in Faucon, France. The unlovely, illegitimate daughter of a housemaid, Leduc was a black marketeer during World War II; later she was encouraged in a literary career by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Simone de Beauvoir. Leduc's first novels attracted only limited attention; La Bâtarde, with its explicit accounts of her gnawing loneliness and bisexual experimentation, brought her notoriety and financial success...
...technical innovation, Resnais is candid about his debt to earlier directors: "You have to realize that you can't make something totally new. I never thought I made a big break from other directors." He sees his own work in specific context. The two intersecting times of Hiroshima Mon Amour, admits Resnais, owe much to Griffith's Intolerance...