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...more correctly describes the actual day-to-day relationship with Government, much of which is the gathering of information and the reportorial pursuit of understanding. Private briefings by policymakers become the insider's wisdom for many Washington columnists. Many officials and politicians speak to the press in private candor, trusting reporters to honor confidences and in return winning trust themselves. In this way real explanations are heard which for diplomatic or other reasons cannot be publicly stated. The process is a wary one on both sides-who's using whom?-but it is often more collaborative, useful...
...going to have a lot to say about the chimpanzee tonight, and I can't help but adding that in the Congo basin there are a series of peoples who, in explaining the world as it is, uninhibited by Western theology and with a certain amount of candor, include the chimps as one form of humankind...
...this too he was a most "American" artist. No matter how firmly Davis insisted on their abstract basis, all his images feed back into the world: he never seems to have doubted his subject or lost touch with it, so that his best works are triumphs of candor. - Robert Hughes
...press conference last November 11, the White House press corps brought Carter to task for his obvious lack of candor at the earlier press conference. Asked why he had neglected to mention his July 25 meeting with Bell, the president tried to weasel...
Considering all of the emotions swirling about the Middle East issues, and the candor and unpredictability of Anwar Sadat, U.S. hopes of a return to quiet, cautious diplomacy seem optimistic...