Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though increasing fear of malpractice suits and touchy medical egos make candor difficult, both Steel and Couch urge more open, self-critical discussions of medical mishaps by physicians and hospital staffs. Says Couch: "If you hear about some mistake, you certainly are less apt to repeat it. It's a cheap way to gain experience." The teams also recommend that doctors keep patients and families fully informed throughout the hospital stay. "Doctors often underestimate a patient's intelligence," notes Couch, "as well as the family's willingness to be cooperative...
...pity that a girl of 15 is conceded so much importance, even if she is pretty? By providing kids with too much too early, we are destroying the sequence that nature so cleverly devised. At that age, boys and girls, but especially girls, are blessed with innocence and candor. The world benefits from these qualities and so do the youngsters. Remember the Chinese proverb: Let the children rule and man becomes a fool...
Polanski seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of Thomas Hardy. Hardy rebelled against the genteel tradition in Victorian literature. His novels describe violence, poverty and, particularly, sexuality with startling candor. He scandalized the literary classes with his disdain for repressive society, his grim mockery of propriety. His works were bold, cynical, and for most of his audience, shocking--not unlike the more familiar work of film director Polanski. Perhaps it was their shared obsessions with the impervious force of Evil, the cruelty of the bourgoisie, and the sudden, unpredictable groin-kicks of Fate that initially attracted Polanski to Hardy...
Finally: "Any lack of candor on our part will only force our Black and Hispanic students to labor under a greater burden of ambiguity, insecurity and distrust...
...would not shake hands with Jimmy Carter at the Inauguration because the President "has the morals of a snake." Said Ron: "I will never forgive the he way he called my father a racist and a warmonger," though he later regretted the outburst as an "unfortunate moment of candor...