Word: candor
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...Henry Kissinger, the international affairs scholar and Rockefeller adviser. What was surprising was that he should say anything so specific about Viet Nam at all. Yet it was a pattern of frankness that Rockefeller clearly intended to follow. As he talked privately with delegates, Rocky found face-to-face candor was making more friends than enemies...
...baptismal font to the sorrowing mourners at a young man's wake, the joys and griefs of a Latin American village are rousingly depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer...
...each other's embrace. The reason that Trudeau won so decisively was that he matched both the times and the country's mood. A fresh face in a gallery of stale political portraits, he made no promises at all, offered no pat answers and spoke with a candor that was in refreshing contrast to the pompous rhetoric of the past. He seemed a man neither of the left nor of the right, but a man for the future. His campaign was based on the simple, unequivocal proposition: "One Canada." As a bilingual French Canadian, he appears...
...earthy candor of the soul sound, love is inescapably, bluntly physical. In Respect, she wails...
...ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. With unabashed language and unblushing candor, the author delineates his own mock-heroic role during last fall's peace assault on the Pentagon...