Word: candor
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...does everything by himself." Fallaci, tough and intelligent, is the best interviewer around, if interviews are judged (as journalists usually judge them) not by whether the subject got across what he wanted to say, but by whether he had been goaded into more interesting- and presumably more revealing-candor. In Interview with History, Fallaci remembers Kissinger as "an eel icier than ice" and says, "I swear that I will never understand why he agreed to see me." Ayatullah Khomeini may have agreed to see her because she had been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back...
...burst of candor that will haunt him through his whole campaign, Carter provided an opening for his opponents to accuse him of being an innocent in the harsh world of global politics. When the President conceded to ABC's Frank Reynolds that "my opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week, [more] than even in the previous 2% years," his admission was quickly seized upon. Within Carter's own party, Peter Edelman, chief adviser on issues for Candidate Ted Kennedy, called the President "extraordinarily naive" in his "lack of appreciation of what the Soviets...
...Peter Townshend and wrote the story, which assesses the group's 15 turbulent years of tragedy, transformation and continuing success. "I've been a Who fan forever," he says. "Unlike many rock musicians, they are capable of discussing their music, its evolution and its objects with extraordinary candor and intelligence." That intelligence, as reflected in The Who's music and Cocks' story, has also made a fan of TIME's culture editor, though the conversion came relatively late. Concedes Duffy: "Back when The Who was being launched, I was in line at the Metropolitan, trying...
...imply that he has talked to a higher authority than he really has. At worst, without putting his own good name at risk, an official may be floating a trial balloon, scoring off a rival or planting wrong information. The bargain may seem an evenhanded one-my increased candor in exchange for your protecting my identity-but it isn't. A strange transference takes place: the responsibility for the authenticity of what is said shifts from the speaker to the person who prints and guarantees it. Editors can't live without the unnamed authority but aren...
...Howard Baker, the Senate minority leader, calibrate the exact degree of his opposition to the SALT treaty. And it was exhilarating to see John Connally playing catchup, firing that long bomb of his about the Middle East-with results that have persuaded no other candidate of the usefulness of candor. But what happens when candidates no longer define issues as they used to be defined in terms of priorities in spending, or in terms of problems and solutions...