Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although members modestly refuse to comment as to whether there exists a Gershwin, Berlin, or Kern among them, several have written popular pieces which drew favorable remarks from professional musicians...
Oxonian Herbert's words touched off a row like a summer thunderstorm. One hundred seventy-four Members of Parliament signed a petition supporting the Group. Evangelist Buchman himself was not available for comment (he was last seen in Bath, Me. attending a Group musical show called You Can Defend America), but from his press-relations department came a stream of releases giving testimonials from everyone from Franklin Roosevelt to "the Lord Mayor of Bristol and 52 aldermen and councilors...
...Comment: This "can never be achieved except relatively, and there are positive dangers in holding out such an expectation to desperate and destitute masses...
...Comment: "The real issue . . . relates to the right to close the seas in time...
...Comment: "Peace can never be assured merely by seeking to reserve armament exclusively for those nations which are so satisfied that they seek only to maintain the status quo. This was the great illusion of Versailles." Since "the world is a living, and thus a changing, organism," the eight points should have proposed "the development of some international mechanism for effecting peaceful change...