Word: candor
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Rosi, then, is doing battle with pretension in Moment of Truth, the pretension which has made the ritual hollow and which allows such men as Miguelia into the bullring only to meet their tragic end. The candor and the earnestness which the director brings to the film perfectly counter-points his basic message. The elemental power which he achieves will very likely make you an aficionado of Francesco Rosi, if not of bullfighting itself...
...British thrive on adversity, then the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd., the grand old lady of transatlantic travel, should thrive. With unusual candor, Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman of the Cunard group since November, recently stated the dimensions of adversity. Passenger operations have lost $40 mil lion in the past five years. Cargo ship ments and other sources of revenue turned the loss into a slight profit, but, said Sir Basil, Cunard has only been kept going by the sale of investments and property and by tax recoveries...
Hyperbole, of course, but it reflected the wry eye that J.F.K. characteristically turned on himself and his clan. The Kennedy candor comes through with engaging clarity in the reminiscences of Paul ("Red") Fay, a fellow PT boat commander, close friend and campaign aide, whom Kennedy appointed Under Secretary of the Navy. In his forthcoming book, The Pleasure of His Company (Harper & Row), now being serialized by McCall's, Fay recalls some other revealing Kennedyisms. "When the war is over and you are out there in sunny California," Kennedy told San Franciscan Fay in 1945, "I'll be back...
Henceforth, Wilson decreed, patrols must be mixed to reflect Chicago's own -diverse ethnic makeup, pairing as best as possible the traditional Irish and Italian cops with Negroes, Puerto Ricans and Latin Americans. The dogs, Wilson indicated with refreshing candor, had been a mistake and in all probability would not be used again to head off riots. City hall, rather belatedly, took note of the tensions along Division Street and promised a conference to discuss Puerto Rican problems...
...student protest, most speakers who took a broad look at the college generation fell far short of despair. Robert Rankin, associate director of the Danforth Foundation, told University of Redlands graduates that "you embody less silliness, a greater degree of personal maturity, more concern about humanity, and more candor and integrity than any student generation in this century...