Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said: "Chair." The visitor sat down near the desk. Hat and coat still on, Adams opened several envelopes marked "Confidential." He pressed a buzzer and summoned an assistant staff secretary. Adams handed the aide a paper and ordered: "Send this to Gettysburg . . . Seems self-explanatory-but add any necessary comment." A telephone rang. Adams picked it up. "That's right," he said. "Yeah ... Let's try it." He hung up (Adams considers the words hello and goodbye to be the sheerest waste of time). Next, Adams left his office to talk with his secretaries in an adjoining room...
David Rockefeller '36, chairman of both this and last year's committee, would not comment on the proposed agenda for the committee, but another member said last night that he remembered receiving a letter about it which contained information on a new House, including such items as plumbing, windows, common rooms, and libraries...
When contacted DuBois said that he did not know about the report and could not comment. Shapley and Mather also had not heard about it until informed by the CRIMSON. The information was published in U.S. News and World Report...
...first act of the Metropolitan Opera's new Don Pasquale, Baritone Frank Guarrera peeks behind a screen where Coloratura Roberta Peters is making an onstage costume change. "Brava," he sings with a leer. "Brava, brava!" That sentiment might well serve as comment on the whole production. Peters & Co. have turned Gaetano Donizetti's old (1843) comic opera into something to cheer about...
First reports suggest that benevolence is working in a few well-guarded areas. Governor Soustelle's comment: "We must go further." Soustelle hopes to hold Algerian elections next summer (if Paris allows him to) and to discuss a permanent settlement with the more moderate Arab leaders. Yet, as in all French North Africa, Algeria's 1,000,000 French colons are terrified that home rule will submerge them under the votes of 8,000,000 Algerian Arabs. To reassure the colons (and their powerful backers in France), Soustelle announced last week: "We should never have lost Indo-China...