Word: candidness
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...five years, when Harvard asks its graduates, male and female, to write about themselves for the class "Redbook," a "collective autobiography of triumphs and failures, bragging and tales of woe." As the preface to our just published 30th-reunion report warns, what we have to say can be "breathtakingly candid, insightful, boring, witty, curmudgeonly, heartbreaking." But it's always an intriguing peep into 1,493 personal diaries...
...simple knowledge that information of the final portion of Harrington's book arose from candid conversation between doctors and divinity professors, neurologists and national health program directors, causes the reader to cling to every word of the last 40 pages. Some dialogue is amusing--Professor Spiro of Yale speaks of "feeling like a knight, very macho" when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each...
...saga remains a tale of two cities. In London last week Princess Diana was the renewed subject of tabloid headlines as the latest edition of a biography went on sale--an autobiography, it turns out, offering candid and often biting descriptions of her life with the royals, as divulged by her collaborator Andrew Morton. The Windsors and the Spencers were appalled, as were the British media. But however scandalized the public may have been over Morton's breach of Diana's confidence, the book flew out of London stores. In Paris there was no room for soap opera or sentiment...
Year-old rumors of an impending rule that would require first-years to bring their own computers to Harvard were dispelled by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis'68 yesterday in a candid e-mail to The Crimson...
...larger scale, Diana's contribution to history is both paradoxical and inadvertent. She will go down as the chief saboteur of the monarchy. It wasn't just the divorce, the tell-all boyfriend, the married rugby star. She introduced an informality, a candid modernity, into a system that could offer no resistance to it; she had a beauty in her life that made them ugly...