Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passion for Peanuts unites such varied readers as Poet Carl Sandburg, General Motors' President Harlow Curtice, and a dozen Navymen at the South Pole who crowd around a bulletin board each day for their Peanuts ration. The sparely drawn strip is included as a comment on mid-century mores in a historical textbook published by George Washington University. Peanuts earned its paterfamilias, Minnesota-born Artist Charles Monroe Schulz, the Cartoonists' Society's annual Reuben Award. Last week the editors of Yale's humorous monthly Record twined ivy in young (35) Charles Schulz's laurels...
...like herring through a cargo net. Keller's solution: analysis by music instead of by words. His criticism of Mozart's String Quartet in D Minor (K. 421) broadcast last week from Hamburg, convincingly demonstrated that a few snatches of music, pointedly juxtaposed, can make a sharper comment on a composition than a column of critical prose...
...Last week Nickerson declined to comment on the Explorer's success. His wife had no such inhibitions. "He has orders not to comment on missiles," said she by telephone from Panama. "But I have no orders not to talk, and I think it's wonderful that the Army has lived up to all the things it promised...
...audience by the hand and lead it up to the truth; somehow it has not the weight of the play behind it. Too many earlier scenes were flattish, too much writing was prosy; nowhere did 17 years leap out in a sudden glance, or a lifetime emerge in a comment. The play makes soberly clear the sad human arithmetic that twice two is four, and that mankind would make it five. What is beyond it is the magical creative arithmetic that can raise things to a higher power...
Died. Arthur B. Eisenhower, 71, oldest of the Eisenhower brothers, longtime (1934-56) vice president of Kansas City's Commerce Trust Co., much publicized (in 1953) for his comment that Sen. McCarthy was "the most dangerous menace to America"; of a heart ailment; in Kansas City...