Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court's dictum-handed down in the historic Escobedo case, which involved the Chicago cops themselves-that a suspect may not be questioned without a lawyer's advice, police let more than a week elapse without attempting to interrogate Speck. Such new-found deference evoked caustic comment from several sources, among them Author Truman Capote, whose bestseller In Cold Blood is an exhaustive anatomy of the two men convicted of murdering the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, Capote reasoned that had the Supreme Court's recent...
...wooden leg, Pyne fancies himself a foreign-affairs expert. His Asia policy, for instance, is to bomb Red China. When California Democratic Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan expressed a less hawkish view, Pyne, who had phoned him for an opinion in the first place, sneered: "What qualifies you to comment on military strategy...
...page tabloid, comes out weekly, claimed a circulation of 9,000 on its second birthday last week. Editor and Publisher Art Kunkin, 38, a former machinist who studied at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, sees his paper as "a forum for free expression of critical comment and dialogue." Kunkin keeps a closer eye on local problems than does EVO, started a commendable series of sociological studies of Watts almost immediately after the riots last summer. The Free Press fills its classified column with ads that are often explicit and occasionally written in an unfathomably cryptic private language...
...Roper, those by the mysterious "Ro: Ba:" and by Nicholas Harpsfield, the records of his trial, stray accounts of his execution--these sources show the truth of this view. A point it is, but not the point (nor did Mr. Justice Frankfurter think it was--his words were a comment on law, not on literature or history...
Dealing as it does with power and conscience, and with the justifiability and efficacy of violence, the play is naturally always timely. The current production is not being staged as an intentional comment on the civil rights movement, on Vietnam, or on any other pressing social or political problem; but the relevance of the play to the United States of 1966 seems wholly inescapable...