Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirty Wash. The Advertiser's series also reported that Chicago had assigned 150 police to the Trumbull Park development (TIME, May 17, 1954) to prevent violence over an influx of Negro residents. Hall's wry comment noted that Chicago race relations "seem incredibly violent to a Southerner," since "in all the Confederacy, there's not a single Negro family I know of that needs police protection...
Richard B. Merle, '57, Chairman of the Council's Committee, was reportedly forced into extra hours last night to get the final draft ready for the Council tonight and the CEP meeting tomorrow. Neither Merlo, nor Council President Edward M. Abramson, '57, were available last night for comment on the Report's recommendations...
...Greek Department and the Classics Club, however, were to advance to still greater things. Using an all-male cast, as they had done with Oedipus, the group put on The Birds by Aristophanes in 1901 and drew the following comment from a Boston paper: "The ladies looking on could not help exclaiming at the beauty of Mr. Doyle as an attendant. The Queen (A. H. Rice) was nobly demure and enticing...
...your March 5 remarks on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute and the fact that it "was made possible by a grant from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.," your music critic added the comment: "She did not get her money's worth." May I add my comment-"Oh, yes, she did!" And what is even better, music lovers seem to be getting theirs...
...Truman says that he thinks the Post handled the news fairly when he was in the White House, but he has shown his dislike for its comment. Most famous example: his invective-choked letter of protest about Post Music Critic Paul Hume's criticism of daughter Margaret's singing in 1950. Publisher Graham has two far hotter letters from Truman that he says he will never make public...