Word: candids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fadiman has a critical note on each item and an admirable prefatory essay, "My Life Is an Open Book." The preface is a candid and well-reconstructed account of the editor's history as a reader; the sections on childhood-reading are particularly good...
...stride. Giving up his year-long attempt to compete with Winston Church ill in the manufacture of richly phrased, purple-worded dramatic addresses, he switched style, went back to his own earlier simplicity, clarity. Result was one of his best speeches this year, a powerful, moving, direct and candid effort. Ostensibly speaking to U.S. workmen on Labor Day, he told all the people...
...solitary Japanese boy on the U.S. West Coast, to serve as houseboy, to hoe fields of Japanese truck gardeners, to wait on table, to be a hotel busboy, gave him a hard core under the candid and mannerly exterior; certainly it taught him that there was only himself to fend for himself...
...their annual convention. If they were no better looking than run-of-the-mine conventioneers, they were definitely better behaved. Although the hotels were so jammed that latecomers were happy to get berths on an old lake steamer, the sessions were sober and earnest. Even the over-candid medical sense of humor was curbed...
Boasting more complete coverage than any of its predecessors the book brings every sport, except crew up to its Yale meet. Copy and statistics have been cut to a minimum to insure more candid shots of the teams and clubs in action. "Every activity and organizations has been covered and photographed," said Atherton...