Word: candor
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America is the New World. What it has to offer the jaded Old World is its fresh eye and unspoiled candor. When Stewart goes to Washington as Mr. Smith, a band of amused journalists ask him what he knows about governmental procedure or the passing of bills. His answer: "I don't pretend to know." And that too is a guarantee of virtue. Mr. Smith's first name is Jefferson, after the man who said that a plowman is wiser than a professor when it comes to essential things...
...Adams and Paul Revere--was more like some French neoclassical painting than like English portraiture of the time. His clients liked Copley in part because everything in his work, from a nailhead in a chair to the exact gleam on red mahogany, was earnestly weighed and measured. In his candor and curiosity, he refused to edit out the warts and wens, the pinched New England lips or even (as several portraits show) the pockmarks that were a common disfigurement in an age before vaccination. Eighteenth century America did not have today's obsession with the cosmetic...
...from the sale of his two cars. Every time over the past year and a half that he has left his Brentwood mansion, Simpson claims, he has come home to find it mysteriously "less congested." A frustrated Daniel Petrocelli fumed that O.J. displayed "a complete lack of candor" during the hearing. But Simpson says he simply can't find the stuff: "I wasn't around when they took those things. I don't know what's been taken for my kids' trust," Simpson said. "Some of this stuff I haven't seen for years. I think my first wife...
...been a great eruption in the earth, and the grass and rocks were upturned everywhere." It is a tribute to Rosenblatt's skill as a writer that he is able to get on top of this varied landscape and bring it to us with such level-headedness, lucidity and candor...
Henri Cole, the Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, praised Ginsberg's candor...