Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candid reader can agree with Rumpf that too much of the Allied bombing effort was both cruel and wasteful without, however, conceding that Allied air strategy lengthened the war at all, let alone by a year...
...Thank you for being candid enough to call Sukarno what he is-"rabble-rouser"-and for identifying his true reasons for opposition to the formation of Malaysia...
...book, he is now able to describe the times, usually after some shattering public event, when the President, trusting Sidey's confidence, would talk alone with him at day's end. Under the ground rules, the substance of the President's candid feelings about men and problems were often expressed in TIME without any reference to these conversations. Sidey's book is sympathetic to his subject, but not uncritical. He prefers to call it keeping the necessary middle distance of the journalist, "an outsider's view of inside the White House...
...always, McNamara was crisp and decisive, clicking off facts with computerlike precision. But candid as he was, he was still cautious. And in many instances, what he said could only serve as a launching point for what he did not say. Thus, the real, breathtaking picture of U.S. nuclear power could only be seen with the help of other, previously published facts, of earlier testimony before Congress, and of educated estimates and extrapolation...
...Hobo is filmed in carefully composed color, and although often selfconsciously sentimental it gives a candid look at contemporary Japan while commenting on two of its prime problems: the increase in materialism and selfishness as prosperity makes its mark, and the fear of another nuclear war. Little of the tea-ceremony tranquillity of picture-book Japan comes before the camera's eye, but one scene evokes the flavor of tradition. Junpei makes a pilgrimage to a Buddhist shrine where a procession of monks, carrying enormous torches, winds below a pounding waterfall. Kneeling, he makes his confession: "O Lord Avatar...