Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things which she parodies so effectively: the constant use of literary allusion in conversation. The entire book is larded with supposedly apt quotations, most of them uprooted from English literature and sown broadcast through every chapter. When Dorothea's son wishes to enlist in the Navy, Miss Howe's comment as novelist is "No man is an island," a reference which since the publication of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has been fighting it out with "This above all" as the most overworked phrase in all literature...
...your magazine, May 27 issue, you made comment on my report to the people, which was inserted in the Congressional Record. The members gave their consent because such procedure not only is authorized by Congress, but it has been the usage and custom since some time before TIME Magazine was established...
...People tune in dance bands to listen to music, not to be annoyed by gibberish from an announcer who is not prepared, either in script or in wit, to be amusing," he wrote. (What's more: no more gratuitous comment from bandleaders. Said Bulotti: "It sounds ridiculous to have bandleaders commenting on world affairs, politics and the Russian situation.") He also ordered "all yelling and whistling at the opening and the closing" of Mutual broadcasts to be stopped pronto. "It [makes] the ballroom . . . sound like a noisy saloon filled with bawdy characters intent on drowning out the music...
...that the Baruch plan was best, if there had to be a plan. The Daily Worker in New York and the Daily Worker in London both denounced it. The reactions of these Communist papers, however, was less important than that of Communist Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet delegate. Pressed for comment on Baruch's proposals, Mr. Gromyko said: "So far matters are going smoothly. The speech was well written and well delivered. I have no comment on the substance...
...John A. Maclean: "We were assured that Mr. Taylor's service as ambassador to the Pope might terminate at an early date, but would certainly terminate with the signing of the peace treaties." To newsmen asking for "confirmation or denial," the White House gave a circumspect "no comment...