Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other members of the Art Department could not be reached for comment when the Crimson learned of the appointment yesterday. University officials are enthusiastic about the appointment...
...movies with a boldness commendable but rare in his breed. If Zinsser thought a movie was poor, he said so. A Farewell to Arms was, in his view, "vulgar to the point of nausea." He found South Pacific to be "arty and distracting." Ten days after this last comment ran in the Herald Tribune, the disrespectful Zinsser was no longer reviewing movies; he was writing editorials...
...look just like a Secretary of Commerce," joked Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to a visitor last week. The comment was fitting: the courtly, well-tailored caller had an aura of dignity and success suitable to a Commerce Secretary, and furthermore he was soon to become Commerce Secretary. After nearly six years in the post, "Sinny" Weeks, 65, had decided to step down, and, to replace him, President Eisenhower had tabbed longtime (1953 to last June) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...Elder's first assignment will be the Spring Fellowships, to apply in the fall of 1959, if all goes as planned," the Health, Education and Welfare authority said. Elder, in Chicago over the weekend, could not be reached for comment...
...book and lyrics are the worst of it. The setting is San Francisco's Chinatown, but Mr. Hammerstein and his co-librettist Joseph Fields have wasted the opportunities for exoticism and social comment, provided by the conflicts existing there between Chinese and American cultures...