Word: candor
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...conversations didn’t stop there. Dominic P. DeNunzio ’09, who Mudzingwa calls a “good friend,” said Mudzingwa has used his candor to teach him about the African continent...
...Obama has found himself in the current mess. But in some respects, he is a victim of his own success. To a great degree his campaign has been built on the notion that it is a break from politics-as-usual, including a surprising amount of candor (and sometimes naivete) that in this instance has come back to bite...
...debuted in 1941. Meant to personify the violins in Bach’s “Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins,” the two women delightfully executed an excerpt from the first movement. The evening maintained a casual atmosphere, facilitated by the speakers’ candor and the rough, demonstrative nature of the performances themselves. This informal setting is a key feature of the series. “There are very few occasions when you get to see a company this big so close,” Larissa D. Koch ’08, a dancer...
...rhetorical magic of the speech-what made it extraordinary-was that it was, at once, both unequivocal and healing. There were no weasel words, no Bushian platitudes or Clintonian verb-parsing. Obama was unequivocal in his candor about black anger and white resentment-sentiments that few mainstream politicians acknowledge (although demagogues of both races have consistently exploited them). And he was unequivocal in his refusal to disown Wright. Cynics and political opponents quickly noted that Obama used a forest of verbiage to camouflage a correction-the fact that he was aware of Wright's views, that he had heard such...
...Clinton campaign mercilessly flogged the issue in the days leading up to the voting last Tuesday, not only suggesting that Obama could not be trusted on NAFTA specifically, but calling into question Obama's candor generally. It is unclear whether this issue played a role in Clinton's March 4 success, particularly in Ohio, but it certainly exposed a side of Obama that the public has rarely seen: wavering, caviling and possibly equivocating...