Word: candor
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...candor," Ike said, "I must state that many longtime friends of Cuba who were heartened by the ideals expressed by the present leaders of Cuba when they assumed control of the government have been gravely disillusioned by betrayal of the ideals of freedom of expression, equal protection of the laws, and the right freely to choose a representative government...
...Peter's College in Jersey City, all the rough-and-tumble of tumultuous Jersey politics was aired in the classroom. Under the benign prodding of St. Peter's chairman of political science, a Jesuit priest named Francis P. Canavan, local politicians blabbed trade secrets with such candor that the course drew more than a hundred students from all walks of life, regularly made Jersey headlines...
Between Then and Now, by Alba de Céspedes. With rare skill and unrelenting candor the author writes of a woman who rejects the bonds of husband and family only to find that freedom can be a burden...
Alba de Céspedes writes so well about what it means to be a woman that she makes both male and female readers uneasy. She uses only one literary trick: unrelenting candor. And the only thing one can be sure of when her novels end is that life goes on. Daughter of a Cuban diplomat father and an Italian mother, Author de Céspedes writes with a Mediterranean mixture of controlled passion and shrugging resignation...
...wards the bedridden turn their heads obsessively from side to side, rubbing off the hair and even the skin from their scalps. Such weekly rituals as Bath Day, when the patients are divested of rubber bands, bits of tobacco and the last shreds of dignity, are recorded with repellent candor...