Word: commendable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commend TIME for its translation of Pliny the Elder's remark about the Etruscan ceramic statues. We teachers of Latin are so used to hearing such a sentence woodenly rendered "More sacred than gold and certainly more innocent," that it brightens the day for us to meet a vigorous and idiomatic translation...
Aside from a surefire Ring, and sterling individual performances, critics found little to commend. They considered Otello "dull," "flat," "not up to the usual standard of Covent Garden." In the Sunday Times Ernest Newman pronounced Don Pasquale "an exasperation and a pain from first to last." When critics on the Evening News, the Manchester Guardian, the Star and the News Chronicle came out with adverse criticism of Cesare Formichi's singing in Falstaff, Covent Garden stopped sending them tickets. Even the Times was moved to protest the "disarrangement" of Orphée and Prince Igor, in which the Ballet...
...campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
...week it did less than justice to the sophisticated sequences describing Apollo's birth, adolescence, reception of the Muses and apotheosis. The Muses, at least, were surer on their feet than Apollo, landed more firmly after leaping just as high. Experts, disappointed in the dancing, found much to commend in Stravinsky's dry music and Stewart Chaney's restrained, curious...
...needed at this stage of Recovery, said most economists, was less Government spending all around. Cried President Frank Purnell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube: "If the President means to save money by not buying steel, and applies the savings to reduce Government expenditures and balance the Budget, I can heartily commend the action...