Word: candidness
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...book has been criticized for its candid descriptions of the author's colleagues, particularly of Francis Crick, who shared the Noble Prize for the 1953 discovery along with Watson and Maurice Wilkins...
Brown was candid with the audience. He told them straight out that he hadn't been bought to keep Boston quiet. "I'm my own man," Brown said, "and no one can tell me what to do." He told the audience how he used to work outside a radio station in Atlanta shining shoes and how he had recently bought it, he told them how he was introducing soul music around the country in places where it had never been on the air, then Atkins told about the performer's philanthropy. But even after the meticulous display of credentials, Brown...
Nixon said that McCarthy's style is the second factor. He described it as "honest and candid." "I think that McCarthy will wear better than Bobby," he said. "Bobby appeals to all the base emotions...
...join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with his Arab neighbors to the north. "Look," says Egal, in what must rank among the most candid statements ever made by a government leader, "it has taken us seven years to reach nowhere. Give me three years to get somewhere...
...psychiatrist who also practices in an academic community, I read Dr.Graham Blaine's comments on the "Crisis in Confidence" in the UHS psychiatric services with keen interest. Fortunately, Dr. Blaine is candid about the two-faced policy the health service follows with regard to confidentiality. If he feels free to decide unilaterally in an area as critical as the decision to take one's own life, that it is not his patient's right to have these most private thoughts kept in confidence, how is the patient to know what other sensitive area will be beyond the good doctor...