Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Establishment and its mechanical process, Peretz said, the Institute has failed to internalize any kind of critical format which will allow the student to judge the Government as well as understand it. "If the people who are brought to speak to the students about politics can't be candid with them, then they just as well might be appearing on 'Meet the Press' or 'Face the Nation...
Restrained in tone, candid in content, almost Trumanesque in verbiage, Lyndon Johnson's fourth State of the Union address was a marked departure from the sagebrush grandiloquence that has infused most of his major pronouncements as President...
...settlement became possible only after the publisher agreed to chop out as many as 10,000 words from the 300,000-word manuscript, and Manchester consented to turn over tapes of Jackie's candid remarks to him during a ten-hour interview. The tapes will be sequestered for 100 years before anyone will be allowed to hear them...
...outsiders dog-paddling against the mainstream of American life. If American society is a success, no one would know it from this anthology. Unless it is Louis Auchincloss (unrepresented here), the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant has no laureate and, unless it is John O'Hara (also unrepresented), no candid friend. The voice of America...
...among the last of a vanishing species of Englishmen-a cultivated, gregarious, urbane, multitalented man who was a diplomat, politician and bon vivant, as well as an influential critic and writer. From 1930 to 1964 Nicolson sat down each morning after breakfast and typed out an unsparingly candid account of what he had done, seen and thought the day before. In October 1964, when his son Nigel began to winnow through the notes, he found about 3,000,000 words...