Word: candids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...syrup and the interpretation hasn't prevented it from spilling over. When you should be crying you find yourself twisting a program, and you have to be careful to keep from laughing at the wrong time. The treatment is purely Victorian, as the prologue announces, but the return to candid sentimentalism is unfortunately too much for both the cast and the audience...
...referring to any problem arising out of censorship. What we have in mind is the necessity for candid reporting and honest criticism, on the one hand; and, on the other, the natural desire at this time not to offend or harass any loyal person or group or institution working in the common cause...
...looks aged after six months in Axis hands. In the New York Times last week he serialized his story (somewhat toned down to suit the conservatism of the Times). Captured with a British tank brigade which was nearly destroyed in Libya, he was photographed by Field Marshal Rommel, a candid camera bug who sometimes popped out of a tank turret to lecture his captives on their tactical errors. Contriving to get himself turned over to Italy rather than Germany, he was treated "almost with perfect courtesy." But when the Germans forced his surrender to them, he was taken to Berlin...
...Mary Beard: "Whoever refused to answer the call was liable to be blacklisted by his neighbors or associates and enrolled in the Doom Book in the Department of Justice." Henry Morgenthau was not for this kind of "voluntarism"-in a nation fighting for freedom, he still shied away from candid compulsion. And he was as yet unwilling to admit that truly voluntary sales will not suffice...
Despite his slovenliness, Pierre Laval has the personal magnetism often found in men of powerful and candid unscrupulousness. Many who hate him are also perversely fascinated by him. His brand of statesmanship puts no premium on culture, and he is a widely ignorant man, even of such subjects as geography. A close observer said of Laval's terms as Foreign Minister: "Questions of international relations, alliances to make or not to make, the attitude to be taken with the League of Nations or on sanctions were all solved by him in relation to the number of votes he would...