Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent another half an hour at the screen, taking advantage of its forthright answers to a veritable maze of cosmic quandaries. As a teenager I had appreciated such certainties; as an adult I was tempted to make fun of them. My secular college professors had insisted that truth is always complicated, relative, but I still felt the tug of religious absolutism. Watching a woman in a wheelchair beside me earnestly punching up answers on her screen, I concluded I was not alone...
...Force General Joseph Ralston sought to become the nation's No. 2 military officer last year, he pledged to the Senate to be "very candid and forthright" while harnessing "traditional values" to help curb sexual misconduct in the military. But last week Defense Secretary William Cohen released Ralston from that vow, declaring that Ralston's secret, adulterous relationship 13 years ago wouldn't "automatically disqualify" him from becoming the nation's No. 1 military officer this fall...
Where the hip, forthright girls were harder to come by, however, was on TV. With the exception of the short-lived ABC series My So-Called Life, you would have searched the dial long and fruitlessly during those years to find a show that focused on the sort of teenager who might go home after school and find meaning in the words of Courtney Love. Perhaps because TV has always been a few steps behind other media in the race to reprocess and package alternative culture (remember that the women's movement was already in swing in the late 1960s...
Fortune smiled on AL GORE, who was re-elected Vice President. He was also a very successful party fund raiser, a mixed blessing. Gore's see-no-evil attendance at a Buddhist temple donorfest and the fund-raising calls he made from his office badly compromised his forthright image. Worse, they led to the March press conference where Mr. Clean became Uncle Wiggly. Though he's still the Democratic front runner for the year 2000, his troubles have encouraged rivals like Dick Gephardt and Bob Kerrey...
Still, one wonders why the planners of this event were not more forthright about its religious nature (I do not recall the words "This is a religious event" appearing on any of the publicity posters), instead of covertly springing it upon a potentially unsuspecting audience...