Word: candidness
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...only way in which, so far as I see, the marihuana problem can be effectively dealt with, is by an intelligent, candid, courageous program originating in and furthered by the young. It is the peers of the users of marihuana who will have to find a solution for the problem...
...seems quite obvious that the group was obliged to undertake an inflexible promise of secrecy if they hoped, by their considerable eminence and persuasiveness and not by opposition, to influence Johnson in a candid discussion. This hope need not have been a futile one; it was certainly a long shot, but well worth trying. I suspect that they themselves offered to seal their own lips for its sake. And then came the leak...
Such pressure has built up in favor of birth control and abortion that last week the continent convened its first inter-American conference on population policies. Among many revealing statements, the most searingly candid came from Colombia's President Carlos Lleras Restrepo...
...candid camera also documented another strange facet of British urban life. Housewives were shown letting strange men into their homes who were wearing only milk-bottle tops as badges. Phony TV repairmen were admitted by women who did not even have sets. Interviewed later, the same women all insisted that they were very cautious about strangers-until they saw themselves on telltale film...
Sultry Susan Sontag, 34, is a lady literary light who turned on four years ago with a flood of essays-on Levi-Strauss and Camus, on blue movies and happenings. They showed a clear, candid mind, especially quick at spotting new trends. Her 1964 essay, "Notes on 'Camp,' " is a minor classic, a sharp, entertaining catalogue that did much to popularize-and overpopularize-the Ins and Outs of the camp phenomenon. Her one novel in those days was The Benefactor (TIME, Sept. 13, 1963), an opaque tale about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed...