Word: candidness
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...Eastman has written his autobiography; it is long, racy, candid and vain. It has the egalitarian earnestness of a Tom Paine, the lighthearted sexual adventurousness of a Casanova, the self-preoccupation of a Cellini. The book is also an important document, because Eastman, who observed the early Bolsheviks closely in Russia, was prematurely antiCommunist. In time a whole generation of American radicals would repeat his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party...
...castrated social, spirituality." The London police obliged by closing up Lawrence's first showing in 1929. Now, at last collected and vended by Viking Press (Paintings of D. H. Lawrence; $12.50), the long-forbidden fruit proves to have been outdated by onrushing realism. There is a sampling of candid nudes, but the approach is less pornographic or primitive than merely earnest. In the artistic output of Lawrence, 10,000 pictures would have been worth less than one word...
...seems to have no complexes about being black-recognizes the brutal side of the African personality, and the phony side of African socialism. He is willing to accept people from the outside-whether mercenaries, technicians or missionaries-to give the Congo a measure of stability. Canny and unscrupulous, candid and pragmatic, he just might do it-although the odds are overwhelmingly against...
...must in no case be left entirely to itself," and "the earth's goods are the common inheritance of the whole human race." A section on peace warns that "the use of nuclear weapons must be judged before God and man as most wicked." In a long and candid discussion of marriage, the schema emphasizes the quality of life brought to marriage through self-giving conjugal love rather than procreation, expresses the hope that future scientific discoveries will clear the way for church acceptance of some form of birth control. However, as Bishop Emilio Guano of Leghorn pointedly reminded...
Bellotti generally handles comments and questions facilely but occasionally even he runs into trouble. After talking to one voter he turned to an aide and quizzed, "Who is Allan Funt?" When informed of Mr. Funt's connection with the Candid Camera television program, he explained, "Oh, somebody told me I looked like...