Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberal Union president Frederic D. Houghteling '50, whose organization was on the Truman train, was not available for comment last night...
George Bernard Shaw got the kind of assignment he relishes: a special request for a quiverful of Shavian shafts. The Communist Daily Worker asked him to comment on the indictment of the twelve American Communist leaders (TIME, Aug. 2). G.B.S., who has claimed to be an atheist, an anti-Darwinian (see BOOKS), a "creative evolutionist" and a vegetarian, "refrained from comment" in 212 words. Sample: "The founder of Christianity was a Communist with eleven faithful apostles, chief of whom* struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing...
...just as on the stage it is easier to act a drunken man than a line character, it is easier to draw a caricature than to paint a face that denotes fine character. I've always tried to find the fine things rather than to make a sneering comment...
Cambridge Police officials have reported that most of their available men would be on hand tonight, but would not comment on who might do the damage...
...must be outlawed as such . . . has no justification ... If the suppression of the Nation ... is allowed to stand . . . the consequences to the schools, to the press, and to the vitality of American freedom may well be very serious indeed. Newspapers and periodicals will be obliged to omit news and comment which any group in any denomination, Catholic or other, regards as objectionable or run the risk of being suppressed in the public schools...