Word: candor
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...blame for this extraordinary tug-of-words lay not with the press but with an Administration that has shown notable candor in discussions of the President's health. Yet after each of Eisenhower's three illnesses, as the A.P.'s News Analyst James Marlow protested, the White House "first gave wrong information or only part of the truth and let it stand for hours." Last week's initial diagnosis of a "chill" was in force 16 hours longer than the announcements of "digestive upset" that preceded disclosure of Ike's heart attack...
...taken stronger measures against intra-service rivalry, both his general policy and appointment of M.I.T.'s President Killian as his special assistant are laudable. However, the President's blatant minimization of Russia's recent achievements is hardly going to produce the peace of mind the President seeks. A little candor would have gone a long way last night...
...other purposes. What are we in the graduate schools going to do about tightening up our programs and requirements for this critical degree, which now seems to offer nearly as many services as the A.B. itself? Current pressure forces us to examine our myth-enveloped Ph.D. with candor. What we see makes us look away with shock: for compare our Ph.D. programs with the professional programs in law, medicine, or business. We must ruefully conclude that the Ph.D. is tortuously slow and riddled with needless uncertainties; that it is frequently inefficient and traumatically disagreeable to the bewildered and frustrated candidate...
...policy of mutual isolation among the two English-speaking powers. But serious problems still remain before even this first step toward increased Western unity can be completed. First, President Eisenhower will have to secure Congressional authorization in order to share nuclear secrets with the British. This will demand great candor and initiative on his part in pushing his proposals and explaining the international circumstances that justify them...
Calm v. Passion. Arthur Winner marries again. Clarissa is tall, athletic and thirtyish, an avid latecomer to the art of love. The hour of that art which the couple share in Cozzens' pages has not been paralleled for clinical candor in U.S. fiction since Edmund Wilson singed the censors with Memoirs of Hecate County. Yet Lawyer Winner has a more demanding love-the law. The law is his passion precisely because it rules out passion. He is comforted by its seductive repose, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions or enthusiasms of emotion...