Word: candor
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...notion that an atmosphere of silence, shame and secrecy is morally superior to one of candor and informed opinion is ridiculous. Forced repression of the facts of human sexuality has devastated far more lives than AIDS ever will. Kevin Mayfield Conshohocken...
...Coming after years of insisting that conditions were improving in Iraq when just about everyone could see that they were not, the speech at least paid Americans the courtesy of candor. Bush conceded that his policies were not working and, contrary to what he and other senior officials had insisted for months, that more troops were now needed. He said his new approach might not show results anytime soon and, as bad as that sounds, the alternatives were worse, he claimed. Bush did not say he had made a tragic mistake, but he came closer than he ever had before...
...request found a receptive audience. For nearly two years, the accelerating Watergate scandals had polarized Washington, dominated news coverage and poisoned public discourse. Even to his loyal defenders, the increasingly embattled Nixon did not radiate trustworthiness and candor. On TV that August afternoon, Ford seemed the anti-Nixon: square-jawed, plainspoken, keeping steady eye contact with the camera. "My fellow Americans," he said in his reedy Midwestern tones, "our long national nightmare is over...
...person who helped maintain Ford's common touch amid his political tribulations was his wife, Betty. She brought candor and originality to the White House, a freshness not seen since Jacqueline Kennedy. She kept the Executive Mansion real. "I took all the art off the walls - there's enough around - and put up family pictures," she told TIME in 1974. "I brought in Jerry's old blue leather lounge chair and his tobacco things." Until her husband succeeded to the presidency, the Fords had never lived in a house larger than eight rooms. Betty took delight in the incongruity...
...it’s a candor that Jeezy rarely displays. Mostly he just relies on his schtick, spouting syrupy trap-hop aphorisms and yelling “Yeeeeaah!” and “Ha ha!” so many times that Jeezy almost verges on self-parody. Luckily, even a bored Jeezy isn’t boring; his standard fare still swaggers...