Word: candor
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...Onion. Wagner also expressed the fear that he might go stale in another four years. With considerable candor, he acknowledged that "perhaps it is time for a change-for me as well as for the city." He confessed: "Some of the more routine duties which were once tolerable enough now became drudgery. While I continued to respond to each day's major challenges, I caught myself feeling that four more years would be four more years of the same thing." Earlier in the week, Wagner had described the demands of the job: "The working hours run from dawn...
...fill several movies; what it sorely needs is a touch of cynicism and perhaps just a glimmer of recognizable truth. Hero Richard Chamberlain (TV's Dr. Kildare), struggling through law school during the 1920s, elopes with an Irish-American lass (Yvette Mimieux) whose tenement origins and uninhibited candor are purported to be rather embarrassing for him. Actually, Yvette conceals her social liabilities behind a peekaboo brogue and matching hairdo...
...evil do not exist-there is only unheroic suffering and scrambling for success. In retrospect, his prose seems clotted, clumsy, pompous, prolix, humorless, flatulent and dull. An American Tragedy ran to 385,000 words ("250,000 of them unnecessary," snorted Mencken). Nevertheless, Dreiser's dogged honesty and ruthless candor opened the way for all the social realists of the '30s (many drearier than Dreiser) and also, in a way, for Hemingway and Faulkner, who quickly eclipsed...
...other words, what is astonishing about this fellow is not so much his candor, his independence, his boldness, his industry, but the simple, happy fact of his survival, of his self-made "success" in a field nearly strangled by deception and cowardice. May be continue to crusade somewhere between Galahad and William Randolph Hearst, at least until this country spawns another old-style rebel. May he continue if only because, for us young newspapermen deciding what giant publication we'll sell out to, his raucous one-man-band makes sweet, sweet music...
...focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded hard work and patience. "A politician who promises you a prosperous future is a liar," declared the King with regal candor. "I cannot promise you a prosperous future...