Word: candor
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...nowadays stars are more typically pleased that they can reveal so much about themselves. "Here I am, warts and all," Henry Fonda exults on the jacket of Fonda, Howard Teichmann's new as-told-to book. And Fonda's spirit merely mimics that of other such recent candor-struck memoirists as Shelley Winters, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Ashley, Sidney Poitier, Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine and Ingrid Bergman. There cannot be many Hollywood giants left who have not been treated in one book or another. To peruse even a few thousand pages of these literary star treks, however...
...Kirkpatrick the need to be diplomatic wars with her impulse to be candid. Candor won out, with a rebuke to her questioners and the press that was all the more effective for not being heated: "I don't think one could have a good government in which everyone agreed with everybody about everything ... the problem occurs when disagreements about policy leak into the press as disagreements among people... we have a kind of movie-magazine approach to the discussion of policy differences." She seemed to be saying that the press, in its superficial way, was missing the real story...
...arguing that none could possibly mistake the advantage of heterosexuality. To speak as I' did, they say, is simply to give comfort to those who are homophobic. The possibility that they may be right makes me uncomfortable, but I am not persuaded. It equally possible that a lack of candor on the part of heterosexuals could confuse some who admire GLAD's political courage and are in the process of shaping their own lives It is possible, too that the same lack of candor might heighten the frustration of those who insecure about themselves, persecute gays In the Harvard community...
...Beta Kappa from Brandeis University in 1974 (major: English literature). After joining her father's company a year later, she helped develop a new series of quarterly magazines on such subjects as fashion and electronics. She also became the company's spokeswoman, and earned a reputation for candor and business savvy...
Leading up to the Final Four in New Orleans, the National Collegiate Athletic Association news had been dominated by the candor of Notre Dame Coach Digger Phelps-"revelation" was the word used in the dispatches, but it was hardly that. He merely said that the going rate for a player on the black market, usually situated in a black neighborhood, was $10,000 per year of his college career. Phelps knew coaches who were buying, and though he named no names, the name for men who make their living cruising the ghettos and romancing children is well known. A seamier...