Word: candids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book is finally out, and it turns out to be far more personal than that. It is a candid and powerful inquiry into his parents, their union activities during the 1940s and their secret membership in the Communist Party. As Bernstein explains to his father, "It's a very personal book. It's not a history book at all." In fact, it is a book about writing a book, a book about Bernstein writing the book that his parents did not want him to write...
Loyalties is a candid, powerful memoir of his struggle to understand his ex- Communist parents. -- Nobel laureate William Golding winds up his seafaring trilogy. -- A rich tale of the I.R.A...
...Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed his thinking to be colored by how he wished the situation to come out." The tome is now shelved. Darman wants it forgotten. He rebuffed publishers who sought a memoir of his time with Reagan. Reason: a really candid book might limit future opportunities for high office...
...game of nuclear chicken, bringing the planet terrifyingly close to destruction. Last week in Moscow, many of the same men who were involved in the Cuban missile crisis met to discuss the confrontation. In a form of diplomatic glasnost, senior Americans, Soviets and Cubans for the first time traded candid observations on the drama that had the world holding its breath for 13 perilous days in October...
WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. These spare, poetic images from the Depression era gave American photography a candid new spirit and a lasting legacy. Through April...