Word: candidated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no money for changes, we should be candid about it. If we want to preserve the old model, then we should adapt admissions accordingly. If on the contrary (as I think we should) we want to adopt a new model, and take into account student trends toward part-time outside involvement, we must see to it that intellectual substance be preserved, so that in all the new and multiple programs there be a core, if not of common knowledge, at least of questions and methods of thought...
...Lewis Carroll, so with Andersen: children released him. He saw what the social assumptions of Victorian culture veiled from most of his fellow adults: that children, far from being the apple-cheeked, docile innocents their parents thought them, were monsters of imagination, able to look at other monsters with candid relish. (The tales collected by the brothers Grimm-not to mention some of Andersen's own-are packed with sadism and nightmare...
Accustomed to Mediocrity. Written by Political Journalist Philippe Alexandre, 38, the 400-page book is a candid chronicle of outspoken conversations by and about the two men. "I am an old man, an old man who has seen so much treason and mediocrity around him," De Gaulle is quoted as saying before Pompidou's successful election. "I'm not dead, even if Pompidou wishes I were. You'll see. He won't be elected President. Besides, it would be depressing. If the French people reject me, it certainly won't be to take a Pompidou...
...quarterback named Joe Namath. Reviews, always glib and sometimes perceptive, criticized books, plays, movies, TV shows, restaurants and (lately) Sunday church services. "Eye" and "Eye Too," gossip columns on the snide side, became must reading on the East Side and elsewhere. Pages were regularly filled with features and with candid-camera shots of BPs going in and out of smart restaurants...
...half deaf, Argentine Author Jorge Luis Borges, 71, is still pouring out prose and poetry while lecturing and serving as head of Argentina's National Library. Last week, as he became the first winner of the new $25,000 Inter-American Literature Prize, Borges was characteristically modest, though candid: "I am not worthy of this award, but I will, of course, accept it nonetheless." As for the Nobel Prize that it is rumored he will get, he said wryly: "I would accept it greedily -like a Viking...