Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your article gives me more credit than I deserve and is therefore all the more appreciated. In justice to my father, who was one of the greatest men I have ever known, I must comment on your references to him. It is true that he lost campaigns for Congress, for the Senate, and twice for the governorship. However, he was never appointed judge. He had served as solicitor general of the old western circuit, one of the largest in Georgia, before I was born. He was consistently elected to judicial office, including judge of the Superior Court, chief judge...
Archbishop Rummel declined to comment. But in Rome a Vatican spokesman quickly slapped down the letter as "a grave error." Apart from the fact that the New Orleans group committed a breach of discipline in making public an appeal over the authority of their archbishop, they should have known that the Holy See is unalterably opposed to all forms of racial discrimination and that it has interpreted segregation as discrimination. "It is utterly disquieting," said a member of the Holy Office, "that there should be Catholics so ignorant of Christian doctrine and fundamentals. The only charitable view one can place...
Discussing thet role of the director, Johnston said, "Fifty years ago there were only actor-managers and stage-managers, but nowadays the director's business is to comment on the play. Actually most people are very quick to assimilate new ideas, except actors--who have a certain thickness of perception which prevents them from being able to comment as well as they should...
...wholeheartedly endorse your reference to the competition between Ed Sullivan and myself as "TV's most boring feud"-particularly since there is no such feud. What is boring, of course, is the endless talk and press comment about such issues...
...excellent interpretation of the Beethoven Op. 101 sonata, the gateway to the late period, is too well known to need extended comment here. Let it be said that the transition from the slow movement to the last was marked by some of the most scintillating trills it has been this reviewer's pleasure to hear in many a moon, and that the Finale was played with plenty of Entschlossenheit according to Beethoven's directions...