Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action, brought a different mood to Capitol Hill, and Johnson appeared ready to bend with the prevailing breezes of caution and negativism. While the President pointedly avoided ringing the alarm bell after last summer's riots-or indeed doing much of anything at all-Gardner, always the most candid man in the Administration, eloquently voiced his own concern...
Such fears could be easily overcome, of course, by a candid explanation of their intentions by the Communists. Lacking that, the U.S. seems to have little choice but to continue to question and requestion every move by Hanoi-and then to proceed as cautiously as it was doing last week...
...networks showed no such reticence about their lavish specials that brightened prime time with an impressive range of entertainment. On NBC, Jack Paar and a Funny Thing Happened Everywhere turned a familiar TV art form into an hour of belly laughs -a collection of filmed bloopers and candid idiocies. Paar himself was the same old enigma. He made few new friends with his enduring self-awareness ("All that applause for little ol' me, Mr. Show Business?") and his growing fondness for corny gags ("I'm here for a worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League...
...that he "did not think it right" to remain in office because he had gone back on pledges to other countries to maintain the value of their sterling reserves. But Callaghan's career is not necessarily finished. In fact, he may have even enhanced his stature by the candid way in which he outlined the new sacrifices demanded of the country, while Harold Wilson agilely avoided mentioning them...
...houses but a characteristic of the main-line American movie. Two for the Road, otherwise an ordinary Audrey Hepburn vehicle, has as much back-and-forth juggling of chronology as any film made by Alain Resnais-not to mention a comic acidity about marital discord that is as candid as anything the Swedes have said. Even a conspicuous failure such as John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye bleeds color images through black-and-white in a startling extension of the camera's palette. U.S. movies are now treating once-shocking themes with a maturity and candor...