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Specifically, however right the report is about administrative reform, its first responsibility should have been to redefine the goals of General Education and explain the means for attaining them. But it is here that the report does not confront its task with sufficient candor and commits two errors, one of omission, one of commission...
VIVE MOI!, By Sean O'Faolain. The Irish novelist and essayist writes his autobiography with a candor that few writers can quite achieve in cold type. The result is a fever chart of an overworked Catholic conscience, and a collage of the scenes of an Irish childhood...
Returning to Germany, Corinth scandalized Munich with his sensual image ry. He painted slaughterhouse scenes, leering nymphs and popeyed Grafs with equal candor and caricature. He happily moved to Berlin to join the impressionist Secessionists, an art society that scorned the academy. Then in 1911, a near-fatal stroke reminded him of the dark side of delight...
...pursue the young women, who, Barzini concedes, "are now more disturbingly beautiful than they have ever been," with "harmonious behinds like double mandolins"; foreign women often find Italian men irresistible in their "charm, skill, lack of scruples, and boldness." Many return, captivated by the gaiety, warmth and apparent candor that are the overt features of the Italian national character...
...divorce your wife in England if she is insane?" Woolf was used to having the Swedes ask many questions, but this one plainly never crossed his mind. In this third volume of his memoirs, "1911 to 1918," Woolf discusses his wife Virginia's sporadic lunacy with candor and total tenderness. He was never afraid of Virginia Woolf, nor is he now of her memory, but seems, rather, to be still almost boyishly in love with...