Word: candor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worse Fate. What was exciting his college classmates Lewis describes with direct and unsensational candor: pederasty. "You will have missed the atmosphere of our House unless you picture the whole place from week's end to week's end buzzing, tittering, hinting, whispering about this subject . . . who had 'a case with' whom, whose star was in the ascendant, who had whose photo, who and when and how often and what night and where . . ." Lewis was not tempted; he was bored...
...listened to his father's serial stories about two characters called Whangdoodle and Whiffenpoof. The saddest moment of Stevenson's childhood-the tragic death of a young girl when a gun Adlai was carrying went off accidentally-is told by Author Ives with great kindness and candor. For the rest, tragedy is absent...
Senator Eastland complimented Editor Fine on his candor and praised him as "a fine citizen." But the newsman's appearance again provoked Senator Hennings into criticizing subcommittee colleagues. He objected "strenuously" that the group had put Fine on public display after his "full disclosures in executive session...
...Harriman cry had been taken up by some other important Democrats. At a Colorado Young Democrats dinner in Denver, Michigan's ambitious, bow-tied Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams devoted nearly all of a bitterly worded speech to an attack on moderation. Said Soapy: "In candor, I must say that I was acutely disappointed by the 'spirit of Chicago,' the spirit of temporizing with present problems ... I am made heartsick by those in my own party who do not militantly reject the spurious doctrine [of moderation]. I would be ashamed to harken to the counsels of those...
Another quality of Nasser's character, somewhat disguised by the disarming candor with which he speaks of himself, is his resourcefulness. His friend, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, put it this way: "He is very good at chess. If he tries to win, he does. He is a fox. It's never easy to know his intentions." Says ex-U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, who was in Cairo when the Nasser forces took over: "He's been a plotter all his life; he's a master...