Word: candidator
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Shahn was (and is) a candid-camera bug, not in the least reluctant to use his photographs as painting notes. Among the people who dislike his work are esthetes who think his realistic pictures overly .sentimental and sentimentalists who dislike their grimness. Shahn energetically belabors such easy targets. "Is there nothing," he roars at the esthetes, "to weep about in this world any more? Is all our pity and anger to be reduced to a few tastefully arranged straight lines or petulant squirts from a tube held over a canvas?" To the sentimentalists he says: "All the wheels of business...
Elsewhere photographers snapped some candid shots of part-time sports figures in lesser events: in Biarritz on a recent vacation, two-year-old Arabella, daughter of Randolph and granddaughter of Winston Churchill, huffed & puffed till her tongue hung out playing solitaire with a beach ball. In Falkenstein, Germany, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy practiced place-kicks before a game of touch football between his office staff and a team of American newspaper correspondents. The practice paid off: McCloy 's eleven trounced the writers...
...said one colleague. "And he's just about as trustworthy." Joe was liked and respected in college, liked and respected in the Marines, liked and respected in his home town. Within five minutes or so, everyone he meets is calling him "Joe." At 41, he has a candid eye for a pretty girl, but he has never married. "I can't work at politics if I can't stay away from supper when I want to," says Joe. He dotes on children, to whom he talks gravely as equals...
Wilson had good reason for his candid answer. When he decided last winter that the U.S. needed a second boost in aluminum capacity, he wanted to get it from those who had the know-how to supply it -Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser, the industry's Big Three. But Celler, who heads a House subcommittee investigating monopolies, objected. The U.S. had just beaten down Alcoa's monopoly, said he; now it was threatened by an "oligarchy" in aluminum. When the Justice Department gravely nodded its head in agreement...
...apprentice barber. At 21, he opened a shop of his own in Natchez and prospered. When he married, in 1835, he was a solid man of property, owner of four slaves and the most prosperous barbershop in town. That same year, he began to keep a shrewd and candid diary; when he died in 1851, shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson's Natchez is one of those authentic windfalls that period scholars festoon with footnotes...