Word: candidness
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There was more to Waller's music than the swoony "Honeysuckle Rose", his most famous song. Many of the numbers furnish a disturbingly candid view of Harlem life. The eerie "Viper" describes a marijuana hallucination in which the singer dreams of "a reefer--ten feet long." And every line in the poignant "Black and Blue" furnishes a brilliant play on the word "black" creating a clear statement of what being black meant in America then--and, unfortunately, means today as well...
...other Opus 200, In Memory Yet Green, is a guide to Asimov himself: a detailed, candid account of his early days in Brooklyn, in the developing field of science fiction, in the worlds of college teaching and book publishing. In Memory, which follows its central character to his 34th year (he is now 59), may not fall into the same class as Rousseau's Confessions. But like the author, it is ceaselessly informative and entertaining...
Sonia and Vernon fall in love, or are finessed into it by Simon's engagingly backhanded ploys. They collaborate blissfully, move in together and then face a period of maladjustment. Away from his piano, Vernon is a bundle of neuroses and almost inarticulate about his deepest feelings. Candid beyond discretion, Sonia seems to be carrying a guttering torch for a phone nemesis named Leon who calls at all hours, preferably 3 a.m. After some murky psychologizing about the schizophrenic difficulties of living and working together, the pair split and, copybook fashion, kiss and make...
There was more to Waller's music than the swoony "Honeysuckle Rose," his most famous song. Many of the numbers furnish a disturbingly candid view of Harlem life. The eerie "Viper" describes a marijuana dream, in which the singer imagines "a reefer--ten feet long." And every line in the poignant "Black and Blue" furnishes a clear statement of what being black meant in America then, and sadly enough, now--making a brilliant double-entendre out of the word "black...
...wonder whether it is candid or intellectually honest to call these rights universal when the underlying assumptions grow out of a history of intellectual thought developed in the North Atlantic basin," Ferguson said...