Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever does anything at all. His one definitive action--smuggling a prisoner across the border--is by his own admission performed only to get the man away from his mistress, even though he has no grounds for suspecting a liaison between them. Although others in the book comment on his courage, his only real motive is baseless jealousy. There seems to be nothing in this man worth writing about, no interests or emotions. And any story seen from his viewpoint must be as pointless and dull...
Members of the May 2nd Committee met in New York City over the weekend to decide whether or not the movementt should be disbanded on the national level. Contacted in New York and in Cambridge they refused to comment on the outcome of the conference...
...provided by Choreographer-Director Bob Fosse. His diamond-bright "Rich Man's Frug" is artfully precise mock-mimicry of the discotheque set. Fosse's dances always say something about the society that breeds them, and his jazz-oriented "Rhythm of Life" church number is a wry comment on religious hipsteria. The score is useful rather than enchanting, but one song, There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This, threatens to become the mood music of everyone who ever hated...
...example, his rallying call during the 1952 presidential campaign: "Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always to be getting in the way of national heroes." All memorable enough-and merchandisable enough. But even Stevenson didn't coin enough to fill...
Daily editor Jim Gates, acquainted with only one of the professors in question, denied that they controlled the paper. The Daily gives space to columnists for violently outspoken comment on all sides of all issues. The day the report was published, Gates's editorial condemnation of Dodd was accompanied by a column praising Johnson's Vietnam policy...