Word: candor
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...series of half a dozen conversations with TIME Correspondent David Beckwith over the past ten weeks, Bork has shown unusual candor in discussing his views on the major issues that will be raised at the hearings. Excerpts...
...loony behavior, backstage debauchery, family trauma and drug and alcohol abuse are all the vogue now -- it might as well be called the Betty Ford Clinic and Famous Writers School. But Patty Duke's contribution to the genre is something special, in part because she speaks with unusual candor, in part because Co-Author Kenneth Turan tells her story with artful artlessness. A child champion on The $64,000 Challenge who confessed at a congressional hearing that the show was rigged, Duke grew to win an Oscar at 16 as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker...
Since Gorbachev came to power in 1985, calling for greater candor in reporting domestic affairs, censorship of the press has come under increasing challenge by editors and reporters. Many now feel free to debate government action, criticize officials, stir up controversy and publish readers' opinionated letters about the bureaucracy, all without consulting the censors of Glavlit, the organization that protects state and military secrets. Articles on drug addiction, prostitution and youth gangs are unveiling the darker side of Soviet society. Disasters such as mine accidents, floods and train crashes, once ignored by the press, are now routinely covered...
...Underbook, the author displays commendable candor in disclosing what parts of his story are invented. He notes that a love affair between Senator John Breckinridge of Kentucky and Anna Ella Carroll, a pro-Union pamphleteer, did not really happen. The trouble is, it hardly happens in the narrative either. When Breckinridge and Carroll get together, the passion they expend takes the form of abstract debate: "Two nights before, in her rooms at the Ebbitt House, they had stayed up through the dawn arguing the details of the ( President's war power." So much for titillation...
After Meese's stolidity and forgetfulness, Don Regan came across as a refreshing model of candor and good humor. In the days before his ouster five months ago, Regan was denigrated as an iron-fisted martinet whose poor advice to the President had only worsened the scandal. But Regan gave blunt answers to the committees and cracked self-deprecating jokes about his tenure in Washington. Describing the President as "not the type that likes to go around firing people," Regan quipped, "That's an ironic statement coming from me." It was clear that Regan had less of a grip...