Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sanders Theatre for a two-night divestment benefit. The Din and Tonics gave away free gewgaws, such as cheap toys and cans of WD-40, to everyone in their Sanders audience. Sophomore Jonathan Shecter started a rap group, B.M.O.C., and released a single about Harvard that showed surprising candor about his creative motivations: "I'm a Harvard undergrad, a scholarly scholar/And I'm using rap music to make me dollars." Musically, these events weren't much to crow over, but their perpetrators deserve kudos for trying something different...
Little wonder that the Soviet press, which has been allowed to report politically sensitive news with increasing candor, was slow to discover the Polish unrest and even then used the pre-glasnost device of pinning it on "Western anti-Polish centers." For its part, the Reagan Administration deplored the Warsaw government's use of violence. White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that the unrest in Poland could be a "point for discussion" at the upcoming Moscow summit but that he did not expect it to cause "significant damage...
Bruce Babbitt made the same mistake in this year by candidly telling voters that he would impose a few carefully planned tax increases. Although pundits gave him kudos for his candor, the voters cudgelled him at the polls...
...Soviet students desired change but wondered how to achieve it. We, too, wondered how and if the Soviet Union will change. Our reflections as we left Kiev were slanted because they were based on encounters with a specific type of Soviet citizen. Despite the students' candor, they were chosen to meet with us, and, as students, they represented an elite segment of Soviet society...
...There are all kinds of intellectual and rhetorical strategies to introduce candor and intelligence and acuteness to a certain issue," says Kilson. "And then you hope it flies...