Word: commendability
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...hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits and Templars...
About the participants there is little to be said except to commend them all. The chorus sang excellently, and they knew exactly what they were doing, which is always a help. Ditto for the orchestra. The soloists, Ellen Faull, Eunice Alberts, David Lloyd, and George London, were almost uniformly fine (I found the Agnus Dei particularly well done), and over them all was Koussey, red-faced and snorting, combining his usual technical perfection with a magnificent conception of what it was all about, outdoing himself, as the saying goes. Champagne and lotus blossoms for all hands...
...hard-working young Chekist he had his ups & downs, never amounted to much until he wrote a book. It was not about police work as understood in Western countries. But for Communist police work it was just the thing to commend him to his superiors. It was called On the History of the Bolshevik Organization in Trans-Caucasia. Largely through fictitious evidence it disputed Leon Trotsky's charge that Stalin never amounted to much as a pre-revolutionary theorist. Beria's Stalin is always right, always on the Leninist beam, always out in front of "the toiling masses...
...Clark Lee, made in his new book, the Army doctor asked who had moved Tojo . . . causing blood to gush from his wounds [TIME, June 16]. The Army doctor mentioned in this article asked no such question. Blood had not gushed from Tojo's wound. Neither did that doctor commend the gentlemen of the press for moving Tojo, nor did he make such an erroneous statement as, "If that blood hadn't drained out, it would have filled his lungs and drowned him." Nothing could have been further from the truth if it had happened. . . . I know these things...
Please let me commend TIME for the fairness and accuracy of its reporting of the Greenville lynching case and trial [TIME, June 2 et ante...