Word: candor
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...must have taken something more than editorial candor to include the Essay on black magic in the same issue as a leading story on George Wallace [Sept. 27]. The increased attraction to irrational solutions to our current social problems so prevalent among the American electorate this year is nowhere greater than in the supporters of Wallace. It makes me shudder to think that a politician with his lack of originality could draw such a sizable following. Or perhaps 13.5 million adult Americans can't be wrong. Perhaps, as I enter the voting booth this November, I should close...
...have been kept only since 1930, and their basis-reports of known offenses submitted to the FBI by local authorities-is seriously flawed. In some categories, accurate comparisons between eras and areas are impossible because methods of collecting data have changed and local police departments vary in efficiency and candor...
...Candor Caper. Conceding that Plan No. 1 is too extreme, Humphrey resuscitators consider this a more reasonable and plausible version of the shock ploy. After hymning the Democratic record under such great Presidents as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Humphrey announces that it is indeed time for a change-a Democratic change. He analyzes the nation's discontents, proposes root-and-branch cures, and submits a list of priorities based on de-escalating a war that, however noble its original aims, has become irrelevant to the more pressing needs of a divided America. The line...
...life as well as his music. Married and divorced three times, he is an Old World charmer who, as a friend puts it, has a different girl for every occasion. "The only important things," Schneider sighs, "are women and music." His exuberance sometimes leads him into a harsh candor about other musicians' performances, which he cheerfully calls "giving it to them over the head...
...cords are so large, noisy, and unruly. What the politicians have forgotten, though, is that the crowds signify more than chaos, more than a desire for a good time. They reflect a deep popular desire to see the issues discussed with an almost un-American clarity and candor. And that is why the next President, whoever he is, may find to his dismay that new politics means not only greater public participation, but an increasingly demanding and critical public intelligence...