Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgive a guy that goes back on his party." Why was Truman for Brown? Said Vaughan: "You'd be absolutely safe in saying the decision . . . was made 100% on party regularity." Even more damaging to Brown's chances was Vaughan's comment that "civil rights and nonsegregation are as inevitable as the tides . . . It's in the cards, it can't be stopped...
...presidential reviewing stand, "Tallulah Bankhead came out with a terrific 'Boo!'" Said Vaughan: "She was behind the dignified Supreme Court with their silk hats, and she just about blew their hats off ... That was why [Truman] turned his head when Strom was coming past." Asked for comment last week, Miss Bankhead drawled: "Who's Harry Vaughan...
Even before Aesop, wise men were illustrating points about human nature with parables about dogs, foxes, geese, snakes, rats, oysters, cocks and bulls. All literature, from the Bible to the comic books, is full of zoomorphic comment on human behavior. Seldom have these comparisons given serious offense, one exception being the case of Aesop himself, who was killed, partly because of his fables, by a Delphian mob. Last week Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson knew just how Aesop felt...
Though Attorney General Young refused to comment on Bowles's attack (his Jewish background was known in his 1950 campaign), he proved that he was no man to back down from a fight. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought suit in behalf of ten Negro students who were barred from the white Milford, Del. high school (TIME, Oct. 11), Young appeared in court to back up the N.A.A.C.P. "Here," said he. "are ten children who were attending school without incident. Why were they taken out?" Young's answer: "Mob rule...
...finale opened with a grumpy subject, developed an Oriental flavor as the winds spun harsh-voiced arabesques, then fell into a heavy-booted Russian two-step. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos whipped the fine performance to an uproarious end that brought a storm of applause, a few cheers, and an approving comment from Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Vishinsky...