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...than any other Hambletonian contestant in history. The only real competition was expected to come from a rawboned Canadian filly named Armbro Flight, who was riding an even longer winning streak: 22 straight, but mostly against weaker horses. Nobody, including Dancer, gave much thought to the chances of Egyptian Candor, owned by Stanley's wife Rachel, trained by Stanley and driven by Del Cameron, an old family friend. After all, Noble Victory had beaten Egyptian Candor ten times in two years...
...Laurence Candor's Courage...
Next day, at his own press conference, Johnson was asked, in light of the Republican charge, to trace the change in his philosophy on civil rights legislation. His answer was all the more convincing because of its candor. "I am particularly sensitive to the problems of the Negro," Johnson said, "perhaps because I realize after traveling through 44 states and after reading some 20,000 or 30,000 letters a week, or the digests from them, that it's a very acute problem and one that I want to do my best to solve in the limited time that...
...conclude, though wrongly, that his purpose is to destroy medicine's meticulously protected public image. The book logs the author's internship year at an unidentified metropolitan hospital in the Southwest, just as he recounted it into a tape recorder at odd moments snatched from duty. Its candor conceals nothing but the true names of patients and staff. The result is a rare and unforgettable account of that underpaid, overworked, fumble-fingered and annealing process by which the medical-school graduate at last earns the right to practice...
Indeed Phyllis does. And in discussing the skill that has possessed and apostrophized her life, she can speak with objective authority and candor, as if the poet were not even there. "Rereading my poetry the other night," she says matter-of-factly, "I was amazed at the high level of my competence. I know every technical trick. But I don't quite reach the plateau of the great poet. Eliot, Auden, Yeats-there are poets whose genius is so great I could weep over them...