Word: candor
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...secretive postures of Andrew Wyeth's human subjects, painted looking away or from the back. There is more to these poses than literary anecdote, though they dwindle to that when Wyeth's delicacy falters. But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography. When the elusiveness at the core of his imagination reacts with his virtuoso power of rendering the soberest nuance of light, texture and weight, Wyeth becomes a formidable artist...
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger has been and is committed to the Nixon defense policies, but there is no indication that he ever was committed to the White House methods of falsification and evasion. His good name is on the line, and suddenly there is a new mood of candor in his domain...
...would have been, except for the fact that 1) the penalty for not voting was up to six months in prison; 2) most people were afraid that if they voted no they would go to jail; and 3) a high government official, with rare if somewhat cynical candor, admitted that even a nationwide no vote would be reported as a yes vote...
...backsliding [since his own imposition of martial law last September] on the part of not only civilian government employees, but also the military. We have to stop this backsliding before we can do anything, because we are returning to the old society. There must be self-criticism and candor among officials. The same old politicians are coming back and asking for favors and you hear the same old inclinations toward corruption. You note the weaknesses of officialdom, the discourtesies, the disregard and lack of respect for the people. The moment officials start showing their weaknesses the people are going...
...whether Witness John Ehrlichman had any thoughts on the elder Pitt's famed celebration of the rights of the individual over the power of the executive. "I am afraid," said the former presidential adviser, "that has been considerably eroded over the years, has it not?" That bloodlessly arrogant candor was the climax of one of the most remarkable interludes of the televised hearings. Ehrlichman put forth a theory that would justify just about any presidential act, so long as it was done in the name of protecting the nation against a perceived danger to national security...