Some music critics say "Candide" is the best music Leonard Bernstein ever wrote.

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"Wonderful Town" and "Candide."

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Hitchings sometimes casts himself as Candide, viewing with dismay the vile underbelly of the linguistic world.

NEWYORKER: The English Wars

This book won't make life's vicissitudes go away, nor will it give you a Candide-like view of the world.

FORBES: Brrr!

Whereas the Candide-like picaresque of the first half persuasively evokes life under brutal totalitarianism, the identity-switching and intrigue of the second part seem to originate in little more than the need to spin a yarn.

NEWYORKER: Dear Leader