Word: candor
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Pozzo di Borgo) 34, and Socialite Mary McFadden, 24, public-relations director for Dior-New York. Vanity got the best ol flackery. Said Mary, with un-Christian-Dior-ike candor: "Mine is the original model from the 1962 fall collection...
...cautioned against citing specific authority for our source. We are well accustomed, in Washington and elsewhere, to interviews "not for attribution," to background briefings and all the other in-between ways of disseminating news. We prefer direct speech and direct attribution, but know that candor is sometimes only privately possible...
...political system of the allied powers" is "essentially different" from that of America, said Monroe, and the U.S. is devoted to the defense of its own system. "We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . . It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness...
Beauty in Slop Jars. Such is his rare candor to his elder confidant that he is able to confess the first signs in himself of a troubled spirit, "feeling inexplicably like crying or biting into something or beating it with my fists." Also, while still a schoolboy, he salutes the first intimations of his special vision of life, "feeling the beauty of everything, not excluding slop jars and foetuses-and a feeling of love for everything-and now I've run into Walt Whitman-and it seems as if I've dived into a sort of infinitudeof beautiful...
...that takes moviegoers where many Manhattanites themselves fear to go, into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh-grained honesty of its photography and the improvisational candor of its script make every tabloid cliche about the soulless city bristle with fresh life...