Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounds like a Grade-B gangster movie on late-night television, but the script is from life. It is a chillingly real conversation that took place among three Mafia hoodlums in their hangout. The subject of the session: methods of dispatching associates to a better world. This and other candid peeps at organized crime became available last week when a 2,000-page transcript of FBI tape recordings was filed in Federal District Court in Newark, N.J. The tapes were presented by the district attorney in connection with extortion-conspiracy charges against Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De-Cavalcante...
...already fragmented Communist world, the Soviets also backed off somewhat from their earlier determination to wrest from the delegates an endorsement of the Russian stand against China and approval of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Compared with previous Communist conferences, Moscow '69 was relatively open and candid. Pravda ran excerpts from the speeches, including those unfavorable to the Soviet viewpoint. There were daily briefings for correspondents. A Soviet-run press center distributed texts of the speeches, though some of the critical addresses were delayed for many hours for "technical reasons" and then were available only in very small...
...patients was pervasive. In a series of group discussions, he was able to make the nurses believe that, despite their feelings of futility, they were performing a crucial if difficult duty. Most important of all, Klagsbrun encouraged the nurses to look upon the patients in a more realistic and candid way. Death, he insisted, should not be treated like a delicate china vase; nor, he adds, should patients be considered as all that fragile, even though death hangs over them...
Nowhere was Nixon more candid than in fixing responsibility. "In my campaign for the presidency, I pledged to end this war in a way that would increase our chances to win a true and lasting peace in Viet Nam, in the Pacific and in the world," he said. "I am determined to keep that pledge. If I fail to do so, I expect the American people to hold me accountable for that failure...
Today, Nabokov is a distant and revered personage safe in Switzerland; his judgments and comments are no less candid than ever. Along with a great many writers (see box p. 82), the informal list of his jocular pet hates includes such things as: progressive education; "serious" writers; confessions in the Dostoevskian manner; book reviewers, most of whom, Nabokov contends, "move their lips when reading"; people who say "excuse me" when they belch. Clearly, in an age practiced in the smooth piety of mock humility and slackly trained to believe that sincerity is an excuse for nearly everything, the public Nabokov...