Word: candidate
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...clean. That is a subsidiary part of their function, which is to be sweepers, degraded beings." In Gorakhpur his critical gaze falls on the bazaar: "The sweetshops are required to have glass cases; the cases accordingly stand, quite empty, next to the heaps of exposed sweets." Naipaul's candid view of India is attenuated, unfortunately, by a slightly patronizing air. The squalid, unpleasant truths are trotted out for their shock value, and he never lets the reader forget that he is the author of five novels acclaimed by Western critics...
...recent report of the HSA's charter flight agency is encouraging in its acknowledgement of the community's interest in its operations, and though not completely candid, is at least a first step toward an explanation. The report begins by promising a "full discussion" rather than a "superficial treatment," yet few of the serious charges that have been made are mentioned, and the most vigorous argument is devoted to a point not at issue. The HSA, by its failure to answer the charges brought against the charter flights has done little to show the community that the accusers are irresponsible...
...sport-amusing, but not to be attended to too seriously." He sees a danger in the classroom, where the artist is "put in a position of power and becomes more quickly satisfied, going away delighted with the applause of juveniles." Others find the criticism of students only too candid. At U.C.L.A., Writer-Playwright Christopher Isherwood patiently answers Questions aimed at baring his soul: "What do you think about God?" "Have you changed your mind about Freud?" "How come Auden became more renowned than you?" At Wisconsin, Violinist Rudolph Kolisch is openly critical of the university's music faculty, declares...
First to hit the beach was Corporal Garry Parsons, who splashed onto the wet sand and sprinted 50 yards into a stand of pine trees-and a platoon of photographers. Parsons' comment was candid if not immortal. Cried he, "I'm glad to get off that damned ship...
Spring usually generates a mild lunacy in the American college student; this year it is bringing a radical testing of law and the university, all with candid disregard for consequences. To students across the country - or at least to that bright, neurotic tenth of them who make themselves visible - the effect of six months of tumult at Berkeley has been to show, as Yale Student Bruce Payne expresses it, that "students have become somebody in being able to act together...