Word: candor
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...days as a tutor during here during the 1930s. Galbraith cited one wild party in Winthrop in which a drunken student dove three stories from his C-entry room and died. "There was great enjoyment of sex, alcohol and leisure," the former ambassador to India said with great candor...
...beau ideal of a dusty country town, McKellen is all boisterous affection and puckish candor. From the moment he capers onto the stage, he seems infinitely more alive than everyone around him. No matter how thwarted or downcast, he never loses his vision of life as adventure rather than mere existence. But as his admirers gradually realize, the very boyish traits that make Platonov so appealing also render him irresponsible: unlike the safe and predictable dullards around him, he has simply never grown up. In the funniest yet most poignant scene, he feverishly debates whether to stay faithful...
...encouraged frankness in public attitudes toward domestic Soviet problems by mounting a campaign of glasnost, or openness. Last week, for example, foreign diplomats were taken aback by the unprecedented Soviet coverage of ethnic rioting in Alma-Ata, capital of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. Despite such newfound candor, however, Gorbachev has been unable to shake the opprobrium created in the West by human-rights violations in general and the Sakharov case in particular...
Regan, never self-effacing, spouts his mind with a mixture of candor and clumsiness. He seems convinced that it is his penchant for essaying pointed jokes, nothing more, that gets him in trouble. He even says that his blast at Robert McFarlane last week for giving "lousy advice" was meant as a "throwaway line." Says he: "I'm going to have to stop being witty...
...White Shroud," a book about "sex, politics, meditation, and problems with advancing old age, is a natural progression from what Walt Whitman asked for in American poets--candor," Ginsberg said...