Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, on Dallas' WFAA last week, began the kind of candid interview that Manhattan might have smothered with a grey-flannel gag. With his lipstick and powder scrubbed away and his long, curled hair combed back, a 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler faced the cameras of Confession. He was the latest subject in a line of drug addicts, prostitutes, murderers and alcoholics to answer the unrehearsed questions of Interrogator Jack Wyatt...
...Joint Chiefs. Had they received any such proposal? The official, collective answer: negative. But Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor explained that he had given Reston "background information," might well have oversimplified in trying to get his point across. McElroy glared, suggested that Taylor had been less than candid with Newsman Reston, announced that the incident was closed...
...made Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he stayed on to work for M.I.T.'s Technology Review, was made editor in 1930, spent the next nine years picking up a general know-how of the whole spectrum of science and engineering, developing a facility for tight organization and clear, candid self-expression...
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can. --Pope, "Essay...
Barlach, for instance, represented both by woodcuts and lithos, proves far more convincing in the former category. The woodcut, rarely a delicate medium, is one challenging to subtlety; Barlach capitalizes upon its bold, vigorous hardness, converting a linear element to sculptural, determined shape, substituting candid and forceful areas for greater refinement of expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel...