Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having proclaimed last week as American Education Week, President Eisenhower got off a few thoughts on intellectual freedom at his press conference. A reporter asked whether he would care to comment on "the anti-intellectual trend in our country which expresses itself in hostility to new ideas or different ideas or even traditional ideas." Without even bothering to brush aside the reporter's premise, the President said that he was against only one idea-the idea that a nation can shut off ideas and grow strong...
Some local clothiers also denied that they had trafficked in tickets. The Gold Coast Valertia had "no comment" when asked about selling. Several other stores reported hearing student talk of exorbitant prices, but said they had not handled any tickets themselves...
...play is "A New Comedy," there is only one amusing line all evening. That is delivered by a horse who, for some reason, wanders on stage. Coming at the end of a particularly vapid line by the leading man, Tom Helmore, it serves as a short, and probably unrehearsed, comment on proceedings. It was probably unrehearsed because the horse's timing was slightly off for best comic effect; but then he (or, perhaps, she) is not being paid Equity rates for a speaking part, and you can't get top talent for horsefeed...
...three-times-a-week churchgoer (Presbyterian) and a religious magazine editor, I'm so well inundated with religious topics that it takes a really outstanding report like yours on Baptist Billy Graham [TIME, Oct. 25] to bring forth a comment. It was splendid...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, declined to either affirm or deny the report. His only comment was that "We do not announce our schedules more than a year in advance...