Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Rose Benet, the distinguished American poet and author, will read from his poems and comment on them tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Sever 11. Benet graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1907, receiving an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale University...
Meanwhile Hopkins takes criticism of himself without public comment, philosophizing that he has everything that a man in public office can want. And he has got everything?except a constituency. He could never be elected to anything, and he can never enjoy the ultimate thrill of the public leader, of thousands or millions of people acclaiming him as their man. But this, apparently, is something he does not want anyhow...
...Owen Wingrave" comes during a period of revival for Henry James, marked by new collections edited by Philip Rahv and Professor Matthiessen, and by the latter's analysis of four Jamesian novels in his book, "The Major Phase." In the light of Time magazine's recent, generally accepted comment ("James' stories are meant for slow reading. A little of them goes a long way. Condensed, mellow, with their felicitous phrases and generous perceptions woven unobtrusively into the slow, deliberate prose, they have a flavor that no other fiction possesses."), considerable interest has focussed on the ability of James...
...unfairness of such designation. My speeches on the floor of the Senate, the Resolutions that I have introduced and the work that I have done during the past year in assisting to formulate the Connally Resolution and the Dumbarton Oaks document, certainly deserve something better than the type of comment appearing in your publication...
...Stettinius was cordial, as always. He was also mum as a clam. The correspondents probed and pounced, trying one approach after another, but to no avail. The New Dealing New York Post's William O. Player asked: "Does the U.S. attitude depend on Churchill?" Replied Ed Stettinius: "No comment." To all questions, he returned the same answer. Finally, the Chicago Sun's exasperated Tom Reynolds remarked tartly: "It seems to be possible to be more frank in London." Once again, Stettinius purred an amiable "No comment...