Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their European surroundings, but still add to the atmosphere. These are the section men with beret and moustache; Cliffites with black sweaters, pony-tails, and haggard looks; a grad student who sits in the corner reading a letter that came par avion; the women who drops in to say "Comment allezvous?"; the chef's daughter Monique who philosophizes in the French-English combination of a six-year-old; and the Freshman out to prove he passed the language requirement by ordering a pineapple tart and a hot chocolate "like a native...
...critic faced with the task of writing about Seventh Heaven has an almost insoluble problem, since everything in the show is so bad that his review is almost bound to collapse into a dreary recitation of failures. I can think of only one positive comment: this last musical of the current season is probably the loudest in recent years. Unfortunately, volume is a questionable substitute for quality, especially when there is little of value in the music, the book, or the acting of the play...
...opening a full-dress foreign policy debate. After an hour's dispute, the Socialists agreed to allow Adenauer to send a message stating the fact that the Federal Republic was sovereign at last, but he must not read it himself. Each party would get five minutes for comment. That...
...Drole de Dame, also called "Bizarre, Bizarre," Director Marcel Carne dashes across the scene on his bicycle, gaily splashing mud on every English social cliche available. The hypocrite vicar, upstart servants and Scotland Yard all are thrown in to comment on the pitifully high state of English morals. Carne wraps stolid England up in a ball with one final commentary--the man in a hanging-mob who holds his child's hand with the greatest of social responsibility...
...result of complaints from freshmen, the Union Committee issued a plea last night urging constituents to refrain from violence against the two bomb-throwers, who were apprehended Sunday night. They left the University yesterday. The Administration had no official comment...