Word: candor
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...turned on the television to watch Teen Dance Party or something and saw a young man, a vibrant man, on the television, " Thomas Axworthy, policy advisor to former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, said in a burst of enthusiastic candor. "He told us that if we could channel our energy into politics we could change the world " The man was then candidate for President John I. Kennedy...
...that." The worst seemed past and, even more important, Mondale felt his instincts about Ferraro had been vindicated. After her "superb performance," he told reporters, "I'm even more confident that I made the right choice. There has been a clear demonstration here of leadership, of strength, of candor, of values that the American people will respond to favorably...
Francis O'Brien, a Mondale aide who is managing the Ferraro damage-control operation, let the session drag on and on, correctly figuring that the impression of candor would be reinforced by her total submission to the process. Finally, O'Brien suggested that things wind up in five more minutes. "How about 15 minutes?" Ferraro countered. But even before that time limit, the questions petered out. After an hour and 40 minutes, longer than any press conference reporters could recall, it was over. Backstage, Ferraro hugged every aide and adviser in sight...
...have a staff of hundreds of reporters to check every book we publish. We start from the assumption that it's the author's book. If it isn't libelous, the weight of responsibility is to let the author tell his story." Korda's candor may come as a shock to laymen who think of newspapers as being edited in a hurry, with facts assembled as best they can be on short notice, while a book is slowly gestated, relentlessly checked, permanently bound and meant to endure. But the rush is on at a number...
...Always distrust professed honesty," says Scumbler, an aging, defiantly bohemian American painter in Paris. "It's the ultimate con job." This seems an odd assertion from a character whose narrative is one long profession of emotional candor, sensitivity, creativity and individuality. William Wharton's novel is no con job, however, but something perhaps harder to take: a credo of total, devout and sometimes excruciating sincerity...