Word: candids
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...What are the sequences of "forms of dealing" as a touchstone of candid intellectuality? To cover most of the basis of my recurrent thoughts, preoccupations, the things that I think when I'm lying alone by myself at night and thoughts are racing through my head. Things that occur naturally to me, trying to catch myself thinking, write those down and present them to the external phenomenal world and end this constant division between inside and outside--that's the great function of art. And I think that's revolutionary in itself in that it contrasts manipulativeness and public speech...
Richard Nixon probably understood the nature of communism best, perhaps because of his conspiratorial bent and his take-no-prisoners approach to U.S. politics. Ronald Reagan was the most candid when he branded the system "the evil empire...
...them instead. Attired in trim khaki-and-white uniforms, Moton youngsters between the ages of four and 11 work through reading and mathematics exercises and then at recess stampede out of the air-conditioned, cinder-block building to become blurs in the steamy 100 degrees heat. They are candid about their options. "If I was home, I'd just sit around," says fifth-grader Alkima Thomas...
...came face to face with the prospect of dying five weeks ago after his heart began to fibrillate as he was jogging at Camp David. The result has been a subtle but unmistakable change in Bush's outlook and demeanor. In both public and private, he has become more candid and confiding, less guarded and much funnier. His patrician reserve has cracked a bit and the emotions he has long held in check are suddenly visible...
...other Middle Eastern state in terms of its militarism, standard of democracy and denial of human rights. The Foreign Office expert attributed the instability of the region to "Israel's refusal to allow the Palestinians to have the same rights as those they claim for themselves." After his unusually candid comments surfaced in the British press, Gore-Booth was quick to call them his "personal views." But the senior diplomat was not even reprimanded...