Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country with whims of hurricane force. After his death, his career is recalled by Frank, a government photographer and an old friend from the underground days, who now records the despot's lying in state. Frank's secret hobby is building up a huge collection of candid but forbidden photographs: "unsuitable pictures taken from unsuitable angles, the averted face of the world in which [the tyrant] moved, a parade of folly, a riot of vanity, a debauch of cowardice-s a stark naked general dancing the csúrdú among the cakes on a banquet table...
...MOVE A NATION, by Roger Hilsman. Candid memoir, controversial history and complex political theory are unevenly combined in this Kennedy policy reprise, by a provocative and polemical member of the State Department under J.F.K...
...superiority of Manhattan parks, ghettos and delicatessens. Tom Wolfe, a Yale Ph. D. in American Studies who has become a kind of Boswell of hip New York, contributes a scathing parody of a stranger's introduction to the city; a poet, George Dickerson, produces a remarkably prosaic, candid analysis of New York women. Occasionally, local color shifts into caricature, and the book is too breezy and cranky to serve as a visitor's only guide. It is fine as a complement to Kate Simon's New York Places and Pleasures...
Much of Nicolson's charm lies in his candid humanity. He admits to finding exhilaration in the bombing of London; it is some slight compensation for the "dead weight on my life never to have known the dangers of the last war and never to have discovered whether I am a hero or a coward." When it appears that his wife will have to evacuate their Kentish country house, he advises her to load their Buick with two things: her jewels and his diaries. The Battle of Britain inspires unashamed pride: "I have always loved England...
Whether King Hussein in Jordan and the Baathist regime in Syria can do as well in the wake of disaster remains to be seen. Hussein, unshaven and haggard in battle dress after three days without sleep, made his own public reckoning. But it was the plain speaking of a candid and courageous man. Israel had won "with overwhelming strength," he said, adding, his eyes glistening, "I hope people all over the world will recognize the efforts this country made to defend its soil...