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...things about Pierian immediately commend themselves to the attention: it is the oldest continuing orchestra in the Western Hemisphere, and it has the queerest name of any band anywhere on earth...
...which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspiration to do justice...
...still but never small voice of an 18th-Century poet can possibly be heard above all this atomic bombast, may I commend to the attention of your readers and the "bomb committee" the following excerpt from Pope's Essay...
...entirely possible that Edward Kennedy betrayed some sort of an international agreement, but I find that I have to commend him for at least one thing-he reported the news while it was still news. ... I do condemn whatever powers there are that force him to use such tactics to get the news to the people...
Please permit me to commend your current issue of TIME, especially the space and fairness with which you dealt with the life, accomplishments and death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For more than eight years it has been my privilege and honor to be Rector of "The President's Church" in Washington (St. Thomas'), where I have come to know him and to appreciate his sterling qualities as a man with a genius for friendship, a charm of personality, ideals of true democracy, world vision, an underlying religious spirit and a surprising knowledge of the Bible. . . . HOWARD S. WILKINSON...