Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baldwin - Wallace College journalism photography students, searching for typical campus scenes, made this interesting candid-camera record of one phase of student life that is the same on all campuses studying in the library. The pictures were made under the supervision of Instructor D. J. Mohler...
...they said I was cynical, in my fifties they said I was competent and now in my sixties they say I am superficial." Last week, in The Summing Up, Author Maugham gave readers passing reasons for agreeing with the critics of each decade. But he also gave them a candid appraisal of his own temperament and accomplishments, some shrewd reflections on writing, some common-sense aphorisms, about as few revelations of his personal life as it would be possible for an autobiographer to give...
...with regret, but I would be less than candid if I failed to express my opinion that unemployment is now traceable more directly to Government policy than to anything that business could or should do and that if those policies are not changed, neither business nor Government can ever solve this most terrible of all our problems...
Vardis Fisher's candid, uneven, sometimes powerful tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot, We Are Betrayed, No Villain Need Be) reminded critics of Rousseau, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence (but not, oddly enough, of Thomas Wolfe). This four-decker autobiographical chronicle told the tormented story of Vardis Fisher's fight to free himself from acute egomania and puritan repressions...
...Juno and the Paycock" again stimulates Boston audiences with its candid humor soon lost in trenchant satire and irony, and capped by unmitigated and all-pervasive tragedy. Sean O'Casey has chosen 1922 for his grim picture, when much of the actual fighting in Ireland was over, but men were known for their deeds and their sympathies. He sets up a family from the slums of Dublin, and through them he lashes at principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon...