Word: candor
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Blasphemous Candor. The transatlantic friendship was renewed, but it would be a different, perhaps a healthier relationship. It would be based on the realization that Britain, France and the U.S., old friends united by necessity and sentiment, have a common purpose in Europe, but only parallel-and sometimes even divergent-interests in other places...
...Harl Cook, a fortyish man whose sideburns are frankly graying, and his Norwegian wife Tulla, a handsome Nordic blond who leads one to believe that American ways agree with her. Both show good taste and candor, and come to Cambridge after successfully establishing a similar shop in Provincetown...
...Gunner Asch! has its sententious anti-Hitlerism ("Yes, Lieutenant-a dishonorable war. Deliberately unleashed. Conducted with the methods of a pimp "), and a melodramatic love affair which features a class-C movie Russian Mata Hari who loves her German officer sincerely even as she betrays him. But its freewheeling candor is as engaging as it is un-Prussian. Even its most improbable episodes are edged with Soldier Kirst's knowledgeability, which consistently saves Novelist Kirst's neck...
...conference that the U.S. differed with Britain and France on some "fundamental things," particularly colonialism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and that in the years to come the U.S. would not give 100% support to either the colonial powers or the new anticolonial Afro-Asian powers. Even in London Dulles' candor caused outspoken anger, and in France U.S. prestige sank. Already disillusioned by U.S. "equivocation" over Suez and profoundly worried by France's isolation in her desperate colonial problem. Frenchmen should not have been surprised to learn that the U S. a Pacific as well as an Atlantic power...
...command of himself and his audience was forceful, sure, and accented by a remarkable candor. Only once did he hesitate-when recalling how he felt after his operation. "You must remember," he said, "I was in . . ." Then, rejecting the next, obvious word-pain-Eisenhower continued with combat-tested detachment: "I was having a pretty rough ride there for two or three days, [but] from that day on, I have improved every day." His insistence on candor took him farther. "Now," he observed wryly, "I feel good," but not as "well as I did a year ago at this time...