Word: candor
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...concede in all honesty and candor that tonight Johnny Powers has had his night of revenge--it was long time in coming but it came...
...Formed Taste. The Wall Street Journal receives far higher grades. "Of all the newspapers which I am discussing, the Journal is the only one which, with intelligence, polemic, candor and wit, questions the way in which the world is going. If others like to 'side with history,' the Journal impudently, but intelligently, challenges it." Fairlie warmly compliments the reporting and writing of the Journal's daily background news stories-a piece of praise that is the sole exception to his general contention that American journalists do not know how to write. Even so, for everyday reading, Fairlie...
...wisdom, young intellectuals were turning socialist, reading Dostoevsky, shaving off their earlocks, or sailing for New York. Encouraged by his rebellious elder brother, I. J. Singer, young Bashevis thrust increasingly beyond the limits of his Orthodox childhood into the world of intellectuals and artists. He records with touching candor the delight he felt when as an adolescent he first wandered into the studio of a famous sculptor and discovered a stunning new society that honored the body as fervently as his father had honored the soul...
PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. Writing with candor, an old acquaintance gives a lively account of the most famous literary man of his generation...
...jury scrutinizes his lawyer's every word for any hint of doubt as to his client's innocence. In this situation, says Freedman, the lawyer's moral dilemma is compounded by the American Bar Association's 1908 Canons of Ethics. While Canon 22 requires "candor" toward the court, Canon 37 tells the lawyer "to preserve his client's confidences," and Canon 15 commands his "entire devotion to the interest of the client." As Freedman sees it, the moral margin winds up on the side of deception...