Word: candidness
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...foreign policy of the federal government is my policy," said Erhard. "I am the one who carries the final responsibility. I can't give it up, and I won't give it up. And let's be quite candid. It is inept of the all too clever people when they say, 'We must go easy on Erhard, we need him for the 1965 elections.' Ladies and gentlemen, I am telling you here and now that this is a gross deception. I make policy for Germany and not for the elections...
...early version but not the final version) left Canadians with the vaguely uneasy feeling that perhaps there was something to the fuss after all. Said an exasperated member of the Pearson-supporting New Democrats: "Here we have a situation that could have been cleared up right off by a candid, complete statement of about 200 words by the Prime Minister. But instead he backed away and backed away. Ever since they got in, the Liberals have flubbed on point after point...
...condescension that surrounds the British throne. Danes seem happy enough that King Frederik lives in a wing of the Amalienborg Palace in downtown Copenhagen rather than in the gloomy, inconvenient Christiansborg Castle where the royal family lived in the past. And they did not revolt when a too-candid picture revealed that the towering (6 ft. 4 in.), rugged King had a chestful of tattoos. Norwegians felt genuinely sorry for King Olaf, a dedicated yachtsman and onetime Olympics champion, when Khrushchev's visit forced him to forgo a regatta at Hanko Island last week...
Home Trurths. At odyssey's end, the four intellects are, if not wiser, at least candid. They have grown closer than they have ever been, and they may never meet again. Too many home truths have been blurted-the loftily literary Ottensteen, for instance, reveals that he also writes boilerplate for the magazine section of the Yiddish daily under the pen name N. J. Felix. Holly wearily confesses that nothing happens any longer when he writes down the magic words tradition, tragic, committed, alienation. "The word moral looked mean and angry, ailing on the page. And two weeks...
MURIEL KALISH-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. New Yorker Muriel Kalish, 31, is a modern primitive painter, unschooled in art but gifted with a photographic memory. Her colors are happy, her composition curious, her intuition unerring in paintings furnished with wicker chairs, flowered wallpaper, braided rugs and, candid as can be, female nudes and fully dressed males. First showing. Through June...