Word: commented
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Disliking nothing more than musical sluggishness, he keeps the Harvard and Radcliffe singers doting by his sustained vitality rather than by the everpresent Koussie Woody interludes. His worst comment is, "You haven't got the guts to sing," but it is followed by an expansive smile, and suddenly the volume swells miraculously. Glee Club members recall a rehearsal of "Casey Jones," in which the coaching was so graphic that a Radcliffe girl who had wandered in decided to leave. Since then rehearsals have been closed to the fairer...
Although President Truman in his speech to the Congress last Wednesday failed to mention the Soviet Union by name, subsequent newspaper and Congressional comment has made explicit what was merely implicit in the lines of his address: the President was not asking the Congress to vote him $400,000,000 with which to aid Greece and Turkey in the ensuing fifteen months. He was asking that the United States embark upon a gigantic "containing operation" of the Soviet Union, a program whose vastness both in time and money dwarf completely the expenditure and time limit he cited...
Jarvis, however, had "no comment" on the admissibility of Bowser and Pierce, but stressed that "we are a private club, and we have to be selective about the elements we get in here...
They were not being capricious. Not only is Volpone Wolfit's liveliest production, and Volpone his lustiest role, but the play itself is one of the world's masterpieces of sardonic comedy. Its Elizabethan author managed to make it both a scalding comment on human avarice and a high-spirited entertainment...
Beautiful Ugliness. Samuel T. Wilson, Columbus Dispatch drama critic and dean of Columbus reviewers, wrote that Moon is "the playwright's present towering achievement as a dramatic craftsman and above all as a poet . . . full of sentiment, music and meaning, warmth of human observation and comment, and vast sorrowfulness." Bud Kissel of the Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain...