Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love poems that read like high parodies of rest-room scrawl. Howl, once effective as counterculture manifesto, is now an unconvincing historical oddity: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." But Kaddish, about Ginsberg's insane mother, who died in 1956, is a masterpiece of candor and emotional persuasion: "The Charity of her hands stinking with Manhattan, madness, desire to please me, cold undercooked fish--pale red near the bones. Her smells--and oft naked in the room, so that I stare ahead, or turn a book ignoring...
Both Gorbachev's high-profile trip and Moscow's relative candor about Chernenko's illness have convinced foreign diplomats of one other thing about the Kremlin. Says a Western resident in Moscow: "They've become smarter in handling public opinion...
...defection during a visit to India, little of her inner conflict was visible. The face she turned on a mesmerized U.S. public was alight with happiness. A handsome, vibrant woman of 41, with crisp, coppery curls, ruddy cheeks, shy blue eyes and a winning smile, she exuded sweetness and candor. She seemed pleased by her celebrity--and by the $1.5 million she earned from her first book of memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend. Well-wishers kept the house she rented in Princeton, N.J., filled with flowers. Fan letters, presents, even proposals of marriage arrived. Academic and society people lionized...
Until the mid-20th century no politician faced such indecent public exposure, expected to answer tough questions instantly without squirming and with seeming candor, under the camera's up-close searching eye. The questions are often prosecutorial: if a politician tells the truth, he may get in trouble; if he tells a lie, he may get into worse trouble; if he waffles, he will be pressed further. The talent to survive is essential to the politician, but detrimental to the man. It has produced a new mutant in the modern political animal-the chummy dissembler-that many people find...
...squalor of the back room bars; he wants a neat apartment near a park, a nice place where he can build his family. Adler quite successfully reveals Arnold's inner strength, a resolve developed through years of taunts, ridicule, and disapproval, and shows it to us with a candor and sincerity which is both disarming and comfortably appealing...