Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third lecture, Acheson set down three rules on which to base our conduct towards our allies. Unifying loyalty and candid discussion as a precedent to common action, he said, are two essentials of a strong coalition. The third rule, he concluded, is never to join forces with the enemy of another ally. He charged that the Administration had broken all of these precepts in its conduct of the Suez crisis...
...plot is sensitive, but again somewhat small. A fifty-three year old manufacturer, whose wife is dead, falls in love with an attractive receptionist, who is younger than his daughter. Plausible problems arise, and are plausibly resolved. A love story emerges that is, if not profound or passionate, commendably candid...
...does not exist, says Ivan Karamazov, everything is permitted. To his wife Caitlin Thomas, Poet Dylan Thomas was God-or so she suggests. Her book is a searingly candid chronicle of what she permitted herself (very nearly everything) in the first year following Thomas' death in Manhattan in 1953. Leftover Life to Kill will shock and infuriate some readers, make passionate partisans of others. The book's most remarkable quality is not its wild, keening dirge for the dead poet, but its revelation of the Dionysian personality and singing, Celtic eloquence of Irish-born Caitlin Thomas...
...from France belts out a few sinewy numbers about love and things on the good, peasant earth. In one nontypical, eggheady fancy, Songstress Patachou serenades a charmer from outer space: "A white disk that flies over the city/ A very small, shy man with big, limpid eyes and a candid face has come forth/ If small, shy men regularly fall from nowhere in strangely oval engines, we won't be so lonely when we go to heaven...
...seen through the eyes of a wounded, truly outraged witness, determined to convey hard facts via uncompromising reportage. War is indeed projected, a product of candid, literary honesty, but having very little to do with aesthetics. If Goya is so far removed, he is so because his masterly statements have everything to do with aesthetics...