Word: candidate
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Livening up the show would be candid footage of the real FBI at work. Cut to Hoover reading the daily paper and writing in the margin of a news story, "I am amazed the Pope gave an audience to such a degenerate. "Cut to Sullivan expounding on the Bureau's standards of proof; "It may be unrealistic to limit ourselves as we have been doing to legalistic proofs or evidence that would stand up in court." Cut to a G-man calling up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and under the pretext of being a potential contributor, pumping them about...
...scrutiny of individual recommendations" written by members of the Faculty of Medicine ("Letters of Reference," 22 February.) Some will wonder, however, at your failure to mention the problem within the College. No Crimson editor, of course, would solicit or accept a letter of reference that was other than ruthlessly candid. Lesser undergrads and their mentors, however, have been known to connive at contriving letters that lout the student in "the most positive light possible." The "moral dishonestly" you so properly condemn begin close to home, and some small acknowledgement of that fact would lend grace to you righteousness...
Along the power corridor of the White House, a few steps away from the Oval Office, they put the grace period at six to eight months. But in candid moments, Reagan's men admit that they face a lonely vigil through weeks of high unemployment and business decline...
...General Wojciech Jaruzelski's, is one of the country's ablest and most prominent figures, yet remains one of the most enigmatic. In his 24-year career as editor in chief of the weekly newspaper Polityka, Rakowski, 55, projected the image of that rarest of Communists: a candid advocate of political and economic reform. He was also a link to the West, a charming, multilingual bon vivant who always found time for foreign visitors, especially journalists...
...State, he was in the office by 7 a.m. every day. He was candid with the press, unpretentious with colleagues and courteous with visitors, whom he often escorted to and from his office door. Slow-spoken and ruminative, with an open face and piercing eyes, Clark amiably acknowledges his limitations, but underplays his ambitions. He has proved an adept student of the protocols of Washington. Asked last week about his lack of credentials, he refused to take the bait. His answer: "I have left that determination to the man who made the decision, namely the President of the United States...