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...very candid and warm story, thank goodness it was not glamorized as so many stories are today...
...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...
...office would turn out just like an interview with, say, Charlie Wilson," explains Buchwald. Although he is known at nearly every good restaurant in Paris ("My chief vice is eating too much"), he rarely drinks more than a sip of wine, finds that Americans abroad are much more candid and willing to be interviewed than in the U.S. For his popularity, Buchwald pays a heavy price. Says he: "Every atrocity that's committed by an American-or to an American-in Europe, I seem to hear about firsthand-they blame...
...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...