Word: candids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State, editorialized the Post, is "more parallel than antithetical to MacArthur" and "much less candid and forthright." Then Editor Elliston told his readers some things he had managed to conceal from them for a long time...
...cleverness still runs away with him occasionally, and kicks up such a dust that most bystanders can't make out what he's up to; but he is learning to keep his nag under control. Even in his irresponsible heyday candid friends sometimes said of him that his brilliance was self-defeating; his verse was lucid in flashes but never memorable. Said one critic: "His words lie dead on the page." But in his latest book he shows signs of attaining that memorable magic that only the best poets have...
Tatiana's diaries add up to a good dea more than gloomy probings, however; they offer a warm and charmingly candid portrait of her family-and of her father's frequent distress at the family's frivolity and worldly ways. "Yesterday evening [Papa Tolstoy] asked Lev what he had in his hand. Lev was obliged to say it was a bracelet, which the ... boys were offering to Zankovetzki, the actress. Papa turned sadly away, then asked me what I was reading-a fashion journal! And what was Vera Tolstoy doing this evening? She had gone...
...Sparrow, by Ethel Waters. Candid autobiography; a success story edged with bitterness (TIME, March...
...Sparrow, by Ethel Waters. Candid autobiography; a success story edged with bitterness (TIME, March...