Word: candor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eventually made his way to Formosa, where he wrote Out of Red China. Not every Chinese facing Liu's dilemma could have done this. Fortunately for the world's knowledge of Red China, Liu is an orphan - without a family back home to suffer for his candor...
...civilized France is an unhappy, frustrated country; the whole is less than the sum of its parts, and the nation is more in need of a psychiatrist than a physician. In their moments of candor, the French recognize the missing element in themselves: it is civisme, a sense of community responsibility. Divisions are as old and as deep as the French Revolution. At the root is a profound lack of faith in government, an individualism carried almost to the point of anarchy...
Miller first met Oilman Alfred Jacobsen last March when he was working on a story about Amerada Petroleum Corp.'s successful wildcatting in the Williston Basin (TIME, March 24). Impressed by Jacobsen's candor and executive ability and by Amerada's phenomenal success, Miller later suggested Jacobsen as the cover subject for a story on the oil industry...
Dublin Understands. Wrote Critic Tony Gray in the Irish Times: Swift "unearths [from his subjects] not a story, nor a decorative pattern, nor even a mood, but some sort of tension which is a property of their existence." Said the Irish Press: "An almost embarrassing candor . . . Here is a painter who seems to have gone back to the older tradition and to have given the most searching consideration to the composition of his painting." Dublin, which likes authors who write with a shillelagh, understood an artist who painted with one. In five days eight of the paintings were sold...
...been the impact on large segments of the Harvard population of the personality and speaking manner of candidate Stevenson. His air of intellectualism and humility have caused thousands to hail him as the most forthright candidate in decades. Everywhere claims are heard that Stevenson's campaign is one of candor and honest discussion of issues, where Eisenhower has fallen to demagoguery and shameful surrender to the reactionary line. I wish to present some serious objections to this theory...