Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Drama Festival itself, it seems superfluous to comment on its accomplishment this summer. Saint Joan, its third production, is unquestionably the best so far, and one can only hope that the Festival will be around to continue its progress for many years in the future...
...regard to Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement's comment [July 23] on the Eisenhower Administration: "A fantastic political Disneyland . . . half-informed, with a half-thought-out program, half-carried-out, half in the hands of a halftime, half-hearted President." Governor Clement left out one important "half" statement: that the Eisenhower Administration is just nearing its halfway mark...
That was as far as the President would go to dictate the choice of his possible successor. Pressed to commit himself to Nixon-or to comment on other well-qualified Republicans-Ike dug his heels in. Said he firmly: "I have said that I would not express a preference. I have . . . said [Nixon] is perfectly acceptable to me, as he was in 1952. But I am not going beyond that." Beyond that he hardly needed...
...Very Antithesis." Informed of Nehru's comment on his arrival in Karachi, Pakistan, Nixon said: "I think if Mr. Nehru would read my speech carefully . . . [he] would find that my speech is the very antithesis of undemocratic procedures . . . My answer to Mr. Nehru would be that anyone who suggests that Communist assistance ... is not inconsistent with independence and freedom is not reading correctly the lessons of history...
...major sociological comment of the week was that of Roosevelt University Sociologist Dr. S. Kirson Weinberg, who saw in rock 'n' roll a manifestation of the insecurities of the age, added that "the effects of the music are more predominant in girls." Or perhaps it was that of the reader of the Denver Post who wrote: "This hooby doopy, oop-shoop, ootie ootie, boom boom de-addy boom, scoobledy goobledy dump-is trash...