Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale's first moves was to level with voters and tell them that if elected, he would raise taxes to cut the deficit. His candor cost him. About a quarter of voters cited the potential of a tax increase as their reason for voting against Mondale. Interestingly, 55% said that the next President will probably have to raise taxes, but 43% of them voted for Reagan anyway, even though he has pledged not to seek a tax hike. The only issue that seems to have cut against Reagan was military spending. One in five voters cited...
Whatever the case, since the origins of the existentialists, theatre of the absurd has blossomed as a dramatic genre. And if plays about death continue to make audiences feel somewhat awkward, they still haven't lost their appeal. Rather, the characters speak with such striking candor about the limitations of their lives that such conversation has actually become fashionable among artistic circles...
Such a sense of frankness is the heart of Elias Canetti's latest play, The Deadlined, a drama which, as the title none-too-subtly implies, explores the limits imposed by man's mortality. And not surprisingly, this very candor is responsible for both the successes and the shortcomings of the play...
...there is a hint of hostility in this gesture, Susan Cheever does not acknowledge it. And this graveside vignette, reported with admirable candor and scant introspection, is typical of nearly all of Home Before Dark: a loving memorial journey accompanied by the unexamined impulse to throw something...
Dole's wit and refreshing candor have won him many friends in the clubby Senate, but his hard-driven style as a legislative manipulator could work against him. His record as a relative moderate--he has parted ways with the Reagan Administration on a number of key issues, including the need for tax increases to reduce the federal deficit--will insure him the support of GOP liberal mavericks, but may make him suspicious in the eyes of the right-wing. More damning still, the liberal Village Voice labelled Dole the "true thinking man's dark horse...