Word: commend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to commend TIME, Oct. 27 for printing the cartoons depicting Vice President Nixon's tactics and blunders. They were so very true. MARSHA MASON St. Louis...
...interesting to note that the number of outraged letters you are receiving on abstract impressionist art is increasing. Why can't the general public recognize that we are never again going back to painting like Rembrandt, Vermeer and Rubens-or even to Watteau, Poussin and Renoir? I commend you heartily on your display of contemporary art, but let's tell your readers the startling fact that it is here to stay...
...Commons met to debate Cyprus, Hugh Foot took a seat in the "box," a seat under the gallery reserved for officials whose knowledge may be needed by a Cabinet minister. Aneurin Bevan, so long the terror of the Tories, summed up Labor's position: "We do not commend these proposals . . . but we advise the Greeks and Turks not to reject them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship...
...result of such anxieties, Muñoz started Operation Serenity, "an attempt to give to economic effort objectives that commend themselves to the spirit." On a budget now running $315,000 a year, Operation Serenity restores old churches, houses and forts, rediscovers folklore and old music: Puerto Rico bursts with pride at being the home of such artists as Cellist Casals and the late Nobel Prizewinning Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. But Serenity has not eased the pull on Bootstrap. Muñoz finally came around to the belief that "we must live like angels and produce...
...Harvard College. Although I can't vouch that a canvass of the Faculty would bring an overwhelming paean of praise for the CRIMSON, I believe that the Faculty owes a large debt of gratitude to the CRIMSON, probably greater than it realizes. Faculty members would, I think, almost universally commend the paper for its occasional "feature articles." They would, I suspect, be less complimentary about the editorials on subjects of which they have special knowledge, but they would be more generous in respect for criticism of other departments than their own. But I don't know whether they would agree...