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...nation was heading into a recession. It also made clear that Carter fully expected to be campaigning for renomination and re-election in a period in which inflation would still be hung up in double digits and unemployment would be growing. But for all the President's candor, the policy he outlined in his message and the new budget that preceded it were getting blasts last week even from Democrats. Said Arthur Okun, chief economic adviser to President Lyndon Johnson: "This is a program for muddling through an election year. It does not make hard choices...
...also advocated more candor in tenure reviews, which Dundes said are "cloaked in mystery and misinformation...
Much of today's offensiveness began in the guise of a refreshing virtue: honesty. The doctrine of "letting it all hang out" got propagated in the headlong idealism of the late '60s. The result is a legacy of insufferable and interminable candor. The idealism has vanished into the mainstream of the culture or into thin air. We are left with the residue of bad habits, ugly noises and moral slackness...
...depressing quality of much American public behavior-from Connors to T shirts-is its edgy meanness. Bad enough that it is calculatedly cheap. Worse is the stolid nastiness of it, the rock in the snowball, the compulsion to affront. Even re lentless candor - wounding friends or family by telling them their defects in the name of honesty-is a symptom not only of stupidity but also of unkindness and buried anger...
Theologians like Hans Küng [Dec. 31] should have the candor to represent their 20th century rationalism as the discrete religion it is and not gratuitously attribute it to Jesus and the New Testament writers as their "real intent." Küng's human rights entitle him to freely expound his ideas as his own opinions. They do not allow him (or any of the rest of us) to falsely represent them as Roman Catholic doctrine...