Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleep-walking" scene was described by Professor Kittredge as the most pathetic in all tragedy. "But the culmination", he concluded, "comes in Macbeth's reception of the news of his wife's death. His placid comment on the subject is in direct contrast to the passionate love for her evinced in earlier scenes. This--more than the murder of Duncan, more than the slaying of Banquo--this is the tragedy of Macbeth...
...lecturer in spite of his scholarship. It is safe to assert that his public lectures on the five great Shaksperian tragedies, to be given in Sanders Theatre this month will be much more than mere instructive discourses. With his large resources of critical knowledge, and his faculty for shrewd comment, he will be able to crowd into each talk material that has filled volumes; and his art for pointing facts with amusing allusions will popularize what might be merely an academic subject. Asking for an analysis of "Hamlet" in an hour and a half is much like proposing a lecture...
...Coeur Dispose" elicited the unanimous approval of the Paris critics when it was first produced at the Comedie Francaise Theatre in 1912, and evoked particularly favorable comment at the first play to depict successfully the rise to prominence of the middle class Frenchman. The piece was considered significant because it took for a hero the typical youth of modern France, marking the start of a new movement in French drama...
...value of Lane's letters lies in the intimacy with which we meet the man and incidentally hear his comment on affairs. If the man himself were not so interesting, reading his letters would be very much like listening to one end of a telephone conversation...
...their own laundries, and conduct their own dining halls. For three and a half cents they get a meal consisting of a bowl of potato soup and a piece of coarse bread. Twice a week meat is served. Yet so far the "kick register" contains as its most frequent comment "Genug und Gut", which compares favorably with reports of dining hall suggestion boxes in American universities...