Word: candor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Himself a company commander of a British outfit in the early Burma fighting, Author Baxter writes with authority and unblinking candor. His book is not for the squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...
This is what the two Hearstlings, showing uncommon restraint, call "hot journalism." It is not even that. The boys' candor comes at the sacrifice of coverage; they leave big areas of corruption severely untouched. One piquant example is their soft-pedaling of the numbers racket. The omission may stem from the fact that the newspaper Lait now edits (The New York Daily Mirror) prints daily figures from which enterprising readers work out numbers results...
...from within. Scion of a wealthy family, Hilaly has made a fortune of his own practicing law. He has taught law at Fuad University and served in the cabinet at various times as Minister of Education and Minister of Commerce and Industry. A moderate, with a reputation for cutting candor and a nimble wit, he shares none of the anti-Britishism which characterizes both Maher and the more fanatic Wafdists...
...takes a drink, and quit smoking in 1946 so as "to be in the best possible condition." A man of relaxed charm, he works hard at being modest, and never refers in public to his ancestry. "That sort of thing is so un-American," he protests, adding with disarming candor-"what is worse for me, it's bad politically...
...came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture of candor and sympathy...