Word: candidness
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. This candid account of his early life and career by old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell wittily explores and explains his preoccupation with the irrational and mystical quotient in human mathematics...
...have candid interviews with ordinary people, Lederer uses unconventional techniques. In Thailand, for example, he and his student interpreters go to a "noodle stand" -- an after-work social club--where, Lederer will have his palm read (an obsession among Thais) to gain peoples' trust and "to show them that you are not trying to catch them." After his palm has been read, Lederer, with the help of his students, reads palms himself and starts asking questions. "When I ask a man what he would most like to win, he may say a lottery, so that he will have some money...
...Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutrality was imposed by the U.S., Russia and the twelve other signers of the Geneva Accord of 1962, leaving Laos a tenuously tripartite land that is part Communist, Royalist and neutral. Premier by the grace of all three factions, Souvanna Phouma was far more candid than Sihanouk last week in touring his own troubled horizon...
...Candid Obit. As for the children, there were only two ways of defeating bohemia: to become a complete square, like Caspar John, who turned his back on the turpentine turmoil, joined the British Navy and rose to become First Sea Lord; or to go Dad one better, as did Nicolette's sister Caitlin, who married Dylan Thomas and enthusiastically embraced his pub-and-pad life style. Nicolette herself became an artist, because "art" was the only thing she could do, and married an artist-Anthony Devas-because artists were the only people she knew. But she had the good...
Nicolette's memoir is a candid but affectionate obituary of an era in the arts in which foolishness flourished, but which achieved things of great value. John's painting is not much regarded today, but he was an immense character. Seen from close up by Nicolette's appraising eye, he is not as admirable as he appears in his own autobiographical fragment, Chiaroscuro, or as bogus as in Aldous Huxley's satirical portrait of him as "John Bidlake" in Point Counter Point. Nicolette writes well, with a painter's eye for places and faces...