Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the book will have no radical departure from previous years, the Board intends to place greater emphasis on pictures, primarily informal cuts. And in general the plan for 1940 will be for greater informality throughout, with action and color photographs and candid shots of athletics, Houses, and social activities...
...they do it. Recently Author Thorp published her findings. Though she modestly says that any such book as hers (America at the Movies, Yale University Press; $2.75) must be "inadequate," "inaccurate," "written rapidly and superficially," to many a reader it may seem crisp, witty, just-a comprehensive roundup of candid facts about people who make, act in and look at movies...
...optical illusion" was the candid statement of one baffled (Yardling last week after watching Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education execute a complicated gyration designed to strengthen a music of whose existence most of his charges were completely unaware...
...late Havelock Ellis's seven-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex is one of the notable examples of clinical candor in modern writing. When he came to write his autobiography, clinically candid Havelock Ellis tried to outdo himself. Said he, "To do what I have done here has been an act of prolonged precision in cold blood, beyond anything else that I have ever written." He did not hesitate to rank his confessions beside those of Casanova, St. Augustine, Rousseau...
Soon it appears that what was intended as an absolutely honest autobiography has turned into a fearlessly candid biography of his wife. A social worker, lecturer and minor fiction writer, Edith was not (as Daudet said the wife of a writer should be) a feather bed. Petite, restless, intense, she scolded at Havelock's manners, dress, undemonstrativeness, called him a mixture of satyr and Christ, alternated between tantrums and protestations of undying love. "The worst of me is in my tongue," she reassured him, but once she kicked him in the head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies...