Word: candor
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...what they have believed in. let them have the courage to speak forthrightly, whether it be to the reporters after a hearing, or to the very interrogators of the committee itself. If our professors have interest in effectively defending academic freedom, let them defend it with frankness and candor when they face the Jenner group next week. Leonard Boehner...
...wants revisions in the treaty, one way or other, and it will not even attempt to push the treaty through the National Assembly until the French revisions have been "redrafted and accepted" by the other five powers. "A great step forward could be taken." said Bidault with perhaps more candor than he intended, "if France were in a position to make up her mind as to what she really wants to do." The fact is, added neutralist Le Monde, that "neither in parliament nor in the country is there at present any majority for any solution of the problem...
...after 13 years, he has gone back regularly to lecture successive generations of students. Ranging in their subjects from "What Is Religion?" to "The Christian Notion of Marriage," the religious essays in The Hidden Stream are a once-over-lightly in the principles of Catholicism, delivered with an easy candor that makes rebuttals, for a time, seem almost as trivial as a few motes of dust in a cozy Oxford common room. Excerpts...
...named "transparent candor, energy, and a liking for mankind," as the three most important attributes of a young man "marked for success...
...eventually made his way to Formosa, where he wrote Out of Red China. Not every Chinese facing Liu's dilemma could have done this. Fortunately for the world's knowledge of Red China, Liu is an orphan - without a family back home to suffer for his candor...