Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after all, Mr. Hoon, the great underlying principle remains untouched. What the reporter said of Professor Norton's edition of Lowell's Letters is as fundamentally true today as when it was first written. The comment...
...when political convictions are developed from newspaper catchphrases swallowed with the morning cup of coffee, it has become almost imperative to refer to any of President Harding's speeches as "reflecting optimism" or "predicting normalcy". These phrases have been saddled to the Administration and appear in the press as comment on all official utterances...
...cannot end this report without comment on the Yale-Harvard football game of 1922. We call a game of football clean when the participants avoid dirty play. If in the violence of the contest, one or two men lose for a moment their self-control. We are inclined to forgive them. At some games we wonder that, in a fierce physical encounter, our hot-blooded youth can be trained to keep their tempers as well as they do. The game of 1922 combined the intensity of football with the chivalry of tennis. Cheer leaders, bands, coaches, players vied with...
...communication published in an adjoining column is worthy of comment because it represents what may be termed without giving offense the Tutoring School State of Mind. Its line of reasoning is similar to the mental process by which a small boy, seeing an inviting green apple dangling before him on somebody else's tree, considers that it is there to be eaten, that if he does not eat it there is a good chance it will fall to the ground and spoil, and ends by convincing himself that in taking the apple he has only made the most...
...spectacle of a virtuoso conducting a symphony orchestra in one of his own compositions is rare enough in itself to cause comment, but when the conductor-composer is master violinist, 'cellist, pianist, and organist, of international reputation as well, the performance is more than unusual. The appearance of M. Georges Enesco last week with the Boston Symphony Orchestra called attention to a versatility which is almost five centuries out of place...