Indeed, the modern reader may find The Golden Notebook far franker, more open, more intellectual and more politically and personally revolutionising a text than its first readers did.
Far from frank, it understated the extent of the country's racial divisions and sought to blame blacks and whites equally for them, when in fact, Kennedy writes, "black America and white America are not equally culpable.
Everyone is far too frank with everyone else (the eighteenth century was nothing if not coy), and this viewer happens to wish that the Pennsylvania delegate and eloquent opponent of independence, John Dickinson (Zelijko Ivanek), hadn't been made into a Quaker Cruella De Vil, a distortion necessary, I suppose, to make Adams appear more stalwart.
Far more frank and entertaining is the kind of hot-pink-covered girlfriend book like "The Hot Flash Club" by Nancy Thayer ("It was while Faye was gathering donations for the community tag sale," this menopausal romp begins) or anything by Eric Jerome Dickey, whose latest is "Naughty or Nice".
But an exhibition on Virginia and the Confederacy on the museum's lower level is far more frank about slavery and demonstrates how powerful a truly complete portrait of Confederate society might one day be, perhaps even showing the strains on the very institutions — plantations and slavery —that secession was meant to protect.
I know other people who were far more frank about infertility.
For a more delicate approach, Darkstar's 2015 LP Foam Island served as a far more frank portrait of Tory Britain's widespread neglect.
The script that Wedekind had finished in 1891 was far too frank sexually to be producible on any late-Victorian stage..
CNN found in 2000 that Martin's mature descriptions were "far more frank than those found in the works of other fantasy authors", although Martin assessed the fantasy genre to have become rougher-edged a decade later and that some writers' work was going beyond the mature themes of his novels.
MART CROWLEY's play "The Boys in the Band" opened off Broadway on April 14 , 1968 and instantly made theater history: It was, as Clive Barnes wrote in his review in The New York Times, "by far the frankest treatment of homosexuality I have ever seen on the stage".
And Ryder, with her shiny eyes and elfin protruding ears, seems far from the "frank forehead" and "Diana-like aloofness" of the impervious May Welland.
