Word: candidness
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...That is why be needs so much of it. He can woo and win an audience of students so readily because he himself seems to be undergoing an unhappily extended adolescence. His need to expose himself so utterly to young people reflects a kind of adolescent exhibitionism. By his candid confession, he is still wrestling with his own sexual unhappiness. Why then were these Harvard student such easy prey to Goodman's seductive approach...
...more formal, discreet and professional, as it had to. But it continued. As a superb politician, John Kennedy understood the value of sympathetic press coverage, as a President he wanted to influence opinion, but most of all he seemed to find stimulation in the afterhours give-and-take of candid, informed, sharp shoptalk of events and people. Correspondents and editors, a little awed as all men are by the White House setting, were encouraged by the President to talk freely...
First stop on the trip was Washington, where President John F. Kennedy gave the group a 35-minute background briefing on Europe as seen from the standpoint of U.S. interest, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, over lunch, conducted a candid tour of the diplomatic horizons the tour would cross. By the next night the businessmen-turned-journalists were in London, where at a late-hour briefing four of TIME'S key European correspondents-Robert T. Elson (London), Curtis Prendergast (Paris), James Bell (Bonn) and Israel Shenker (Moscow)-filled them in on the people they would...
...Candid Camera...
Ogilvy is still dread Scot enough to voice some stubborn convictions about the wrongs of his craft. He believes that billboard advertising should be abolished. And on the question of commercial television, Ogilvy is candid: "As a practitioner I know that television is the most potent advertising medium ever devised, and I make most of my living from it. But as a private person I would gladly pay for the privilege of watching it without commercial interruptions...