Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back from the North country, the team spent a day at Cambridge with its captain, Bob Hull, and then a day at Oxford with Dudley Wheeler. Weld's comment on the two bastions of higher education was "they're very impressive. I wish we had something like them over here...
Since populous Southern California has the nation's second largest concentration of Jews, Democrats were delighted. Knowland's front-running opponent, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, demanded that Knowland disown responsibility for use of the tract, drew only the surprisingly lame comment: "I don't think I'm called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald...
...Golden, the disclosure came at a critical time. He was well on his way to becoming a national figure. Not only is his volume of pungent comment and reminiscence selling well, but the Carolina Israelite, his one-man, monthly-or-so newspaper (circ. 25,000), is so successful that even Southern neighbors chuckle at his wry, raucous gibes against segregation (TIME, April 1, 1957). What is more, Golden felt perfectly at ease in the old Southern town of Charlotte, his adopted home since 1941, despite the fact that he was no planter's-punch Southerner but rather...
...movie-director hero is not "a common, on-the-make hustler," but an idealist and an artist. For my money, he's still a common, on-the-make hustler, loaded with moral earnestness in an attempt to season a piece of high-quality hackwork with maladroit and dubious "social comment." (This pseudo-moralism is the second-worst vice of the commercial theatre, right after the sleazy sentimentality in which Goldilocks also abounds...
...first issue was mailed yesterday to club members with a plea for "your comment and your financial support." The publication will be issued weekly during the football season, and occasionally during the remainder of the year...