Word: candor
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...candor of straightforward literary comment gives us an idea of Updike the individual, the person we can only glimpse in his fiction. His speeches and interviews, full of personal admissions and anecdotes of past experiences, offer an even more personal composite of the man and his interests. Of course, this can be good or bad, depending primarily on whether you find a writer's background interesting. But the Updike admirer will be delighted, feeling instantly a companion to his sympathies, and discovering again the compassionate intelligence that sprung Rabbit, Chiron and others on us as sylvan metaphors for American life...
Beginning this past year, the party has sought a dialogue with the U.S. Last summer the PC approached members of the Council on Foreign Relations stationed in Como, Italy. One staff member, Zygmunt Nagorski, was enough impressed by the PC's candor and sincerity--and moderation of outlooks and political demands--that he wrote an editorial that appeared in the New York times arguing for a more constructive policy towards the PC. He observed that...
DANIEL PATRICK Moynihan's courage and candor, displayed during his brief stay at the U.N., represents a small victory not only for the people of this country, but also for the hungry, oppressed third world peoples whose dreams of freedom and prosperity are continually throttled by the dictators who head the regimes of most of their nations...
...foreign policy we have re-established good relations with all of our allies. We are still in the area of sound negotiations with potential adversaries and, as far as our faith in the public institutions, I believe most Americans feel that there has been a restoration of honesty and candor...
...Alger and Doctor Faustus whose claim to fame lies buried in a "vast mass" of barely decipherable manuscripts. Having burrowed through this trove of papers, Rowse now announces that Forman "has exposed himself as no one has done, not even Pepys or Boswell or Rousseau, and with more naive candor and ingenuous truthfulness than a Henry Miller...