Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Henry Beetle Hough of Massachusetts' weekly Vineyard Gazette (circ. 4,993). Examples: "If the same standards that apply to local newspaper writing on the score of interest, concision and carrying its own weight generally were to be applied to some of the syndicated columns of random comment and discourse, the columns would be thrown out of the paper ... As for the editorial pages of the daily newspapers, it is easy to imagine that the visitor from Mars would at once assume they could be made up only of certain building blocks labeled Pegler, Sokolsky, Lawrence, Pearson...
...without doubt a superb job of ridiculing the enormous amount of garbage that Hollywood throws our way. Your review's last comment (in the form of a question) was wonderful...
...this movie, shot every foot of it on the scummy sidewalks and in the smelly bars of the Bowery itself. The main character is a 42-year-old, self-admitted Bowery bum named Ray Salyer (who recently refused a $40,000 contract offered by a Hollywood producer with the comment: "I just want to be left alone . . . There's nothing else in life but the booze"). Since the picture was completed, two of the principal supporting players have died from cirrhosis of the liver...
Dean Bundy declined last night to comment on the situation...
...basic commitment of journalism." Williams concludes, "remains the same as always. It is identical for all. It is to report honestly, to comment fearlessly, and to hold fast to independence ... It is upon the individual journalist that the ultimate responsibility rests. He is the legatee of a great tradition. He cannot abdicate...