Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imply, nor do I know, that there never is honest, "sober and constructive" criticism in the magazine's pages, I was referring to such phenomena as essays on Addison's small clothes and like subjects, and reviews like Mr. George Steven's recent "Syllabus of Syllables" (a parody comment on Miss Gertrude Stein's opera. "Four Saints in Three Acts.") Such items are "hogwash and balderdash," judged as criticism...
After the Minnesota mortgage case, the nation's press raised its voice to welcome the new liberality of the court, its new philosophy of government and of society. The milk decision has given rise to the same comment, in crescendo, and we are told that the rights of property must now give way to the rights of individuals. But, just as in the Minnesota case, he decision was given on emergency grounds, the present decision frankly bases itself on Justice Holmes' ideas of legislative supremacy. In other words, it is liberal only insofar as legislatures tend to be more liberal...
...detect in your Letters Supplement a very, very sly move indeed? Having become one of the most influential publications in the U. S., are you now beginning to feel the need of an editorial page, and inventing an "overflow of comment, correction, controversy, and information" in which, by careful selection and arrangement of the letters printed, you can guide readers' thoughts? I had always valued TIME precisely because of its pristine lack of bias. Don't tell me that now, swelled with the sense of power which your more than 450,000 readers give you, you are planning...
...paper took columns to say what Publisher Leonard Kimball Nicholson of the New Orleans Times Picayune put into 35 words: "Inasmuch as we do not 'work children, or do business in a fire trap, or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness,' there is no comment we can make on the President's action...
...This comment on the cinema industry was made last week at the Harvard School of Business Administration by Producer Samuel Goldwyn. Last fortnight, Producer Goldwyn had more revealing things to say about his own business. In an article for the Satevepost, set down in smooth English by a ghostwriter named Frederick L. Collins, he defended actors' salaries, published for the first time what were generally accepted as the authentic weekly payments to the industry's 15 top-notch performers.* The Goldwyn list...