Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign affairs. A story of impressive accomplishment in Brazil recently inspired President Juscelino Kubitschek to pull out his Portuguese-English dictionary and translate it personally for the local press. Another story of the drought that is starving thousands in northeast Brazil moved Rio's Diario Carioca to comment: "How sad! How true! How bitter that our national disaster and disgrace, which we all knew about and tried to forget, should be reported to the whole world in TIME...
...about bringing out and Studebaker's Lark, introduced this fall, which sells for slightly more than the Rambler American. Last week Ward's Automotive Reports said that General Motors and Ford will have their small cars in production "early in '59." G.M. and Ford declined to comment, but most auto experts think this is much too early, since the companies apparently have not yet placed any production orders for parts. Detroit does not expect Big Three small cars before November 1959, if then...
...really a nineteenth-century one--we are still, above all, a country dedicated to "the ideals of '76," still the land of opportunity for the downtrodden of Europe. These words have a distinctly embarrassing ring in the ears of many Americans; and it is an interesting comment on the U.S. today that foreigners should take them more seriously than...
...delivering long monologues, with a ferocious, virile, hilarious brilliance unparallelled since God knows when. His themes can be grouped under two rubrics: Sex and Society in Modern England, and The Sorrows of Jimmy Porter; sociology, and self-pity. Within these constantly-overlapping categories he ranges widely and cogently. His comment on his well-bred in-laws is a pretty good capsule comment on the spirit that conquered India and beat the fuzzy-wuzzies: "They'll kick you in the groin while you hand your hat to the maid...
...later, Eleanor Roosevelt had lunch with Mrs. Pusey and the Harvard Dames at 17 Quincy Street. One of the maids tripped a few feet away from Mrs. Roosevelt while carrying a wooden salad bowl, catapulting its contents not far from her lap. Mrs. Pusey's reaction, a tersely graceful comment: "The salad, really and truly, is tossed...