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...guest of honor. Said he: "So often I find myself in acute disagreement with the art critics. So often I cannot appreciate what I am told I ought to admire." Exhibitions for the festival, he said with smiling satisfaction, were chosen by panels of artists. "Their choice may not commend itself to everybody, but at all events it cannot be attributed to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Britain Goes All Out | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...commend this protest to the attention of the executive heads of broadcasting stations and chains. I suggest that they call the matter to the attention of their ering broadcasters, and if necessary introduce a teacher of elocution to help in breaking up this silly and tiresome practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...commend your magazine for trying to focus our attention on Asia. Truman has relieved MacArthur of all his posts. The general purposely sacrificed himself, to focus attention on the desperate need out there. I hope many millions more will join me in a fervent prayer that at the next election, the commander in chief be relieved of all his duties. Two years more may be too late, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1951 | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...said: that there was a regrettable trend towards the stifling of unpopular opinion. We had nothing to say about the President's statement, with which we largely agree, and which is politically very far from "safe plodding." We thank the Guardian for its pat on the back, and commend to it a good stiff session with its own soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misguided 'Guardian' | 4/11/1951 | See Source »

...should like to commend you for your very excellent article on the Soviet Union's economic, as well as social and political war potential ["Background for War"-TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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