Word: candor
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...during his working years." With customary obliqueness, Salinger pointedly failed to state what he considered a writer's most valuable property, proceeded to brush off the usual biographical data with the uncandid note: "My wife has asked me to add, however, in a single explosion of candor, that I live in Westport with...
...solved the dilemma he had talked himself into. As he put it with inadvertent candor: "I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people...
...more than a generation Sidney Hook has expressed himself with admirable courage and candor on the fundamental questions of social philosophy. He stands for something very valuable in our cultural life...
...strong, and whose preoccupation was people. His people-often molded like sculpture and bathed in a somber but acid light-picnicked, gossiped, argued in court, rode on buses. But no matter how ordinary their acts, Daumier gave drama and dignity to their lives. He was ruthless in his candor, but his candor was born of concern...
...writers"; yet almost without exception, that is what they are-not because they write about Negro life, but because they tend to be obsessed with the Negro's relationship to the white world. James Baldwin shares that obsession, but he expresses it not merely with passion but with candor, describing himself in this book of essays as an "abnormally intelligent, and hungry black cat." Hungry he has surely been; intelligent he clearly is. Although he sometimes low-rates the country that he claims to love, his anger at the wrongs done his people is relatively restrained, hence doubly effective...