Word: candidness
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...G.O.P. showing, the Democrats reacted with initial incredulity. "I imagine it's a sort of standoff," said Democratic National Chairman John Bailey. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, his coattails shredded and his prestige pulverized by a near-total G.O.P. sweep in his home state of Minnesota, was more candid. "Misery loves company," he said...
Brose is equally candid with the personnel director, Mrs. Murray (Elizabeth Wilson). Mrs. Murray is a corset-bound volume of Freudian clichés. She is both primly inhibited and latently lecherous, and Brose sniffs out the strange musk of her personality: "Like when you said what was my relations with my mother, I just couldn't stop myself saying 'son'; it came straight out. I've been wondering what the proper answer was, her being dead...
...baby, and light the slow-burning fires of infidelity. The emergence of Georgy is essentially a souped-up Cinderella tale, sometimes preposterous, always sentimental, but occasionally human and hilarious too. Plumpish birds who nest alone on Saturday nights will cherish its pathos, and others will respect its piercingly candid glimpses of a plain girl...
...mainly because a suicide leaves feelings of shame and guilt among the living. Moderator Editor Philip Werdell, 25, arrived at his estimates by probing every study he could find, then discreetly burying a question about suicide in a questionnaire on psychiatric services sent to 300 colleges. He got some candid answers, projected the figures from them...
...Johnson, in particular, has changed. "I didn't see any of the Great Society compulsory stuff in his days as a young Congressman." Today, says Krock, Johnson is a "sly and devious man." From the reporter's point of view, Harry Truman was the great President-"absolutely candid, not a bone of secrecy in his body and scarcely one of reticence...