Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Again Artzybasheff seems to show us to ourselves, his myopically candid-eyed character beautifully portraying the recent, rather revolting development within our ranks . . . of a whole group of souls who don't know what they've been looking at until the films come back from the drugstore, the exasperating but so frequently met guy who'll "tell you about my vacation when the prints are developed." This sort of thing first hit me hard a few years ago while comfortably moseying over the Skyline Drive in Virginia . . . There were the usual fenced-off views . . . and each time...
...Your candid story of the massacre at Kibya may finally help in telling a misinformed American public the truth about the nation that so effectively sold itself in the U.S. as the "most democratic and peace-loving" nation in the Middle East...
...William Shirer's Mid-Century Journey, rather gloomy studies of Western Europe, have challenged the optimistic Crane Brinton. Hoping to find Europe not Entirely decayed, Brinton travelled to France and England searching "an antithesis to the thesis of the prophets of doom and the bellyaching intellectuals." Brinton's candid predisposition impugns the value of his evidence, for the reader can never decide just how much unfavorable information is purposely ignored...
...length. Out of these hundreds of fragments, a world takes shape, peopled, according to the author's own count, by no less than 160 characters. None of the characters holds a central role. They first come into focus in a shabby cafe, and are followed with an artful candid camera about the wintry city as they hunger for food or affection and disclose, in commonplace words and gestures, the misery that grips most of them. The resulting snapshots go deeper than a surface image: ¶The little flamenco street singer has the face of "a perverted farmyard beast...
After all the unhappy stories of informers and "progressives" among American prisoners in Communist hands, the hardy and happy released prisoners who jumped out of the trucks at Inchon last week had a different tale to tell-candid, bitter, and heartening. They were inmates of tough Camp Three at Changsong on the Yalu. They were the anti-Communist "reactionaries" who resisted indoctrination...