Search Details

Word: commenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...real men of the fifties are out in Belmont now, driving VW's, taking in a foreign movie now and again, speaking a bleached language and leading bleached lives. A dry-fuck life, Heimert would call it, if he weren't a shade too decorous to make a comment like that from any podium more public than a dinner table. His own style is so much more intense, robust, youthful, maybe in the way Falstaff's was and may be in a more indestructible way that the fifties can only be a metaphor for his condition, not the cause...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Alan Heimert: The 'Idea' at Eliot House | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...final comment, Wilson agreed with student assertions that "the real issue is not housing or relocation--but the distribution of political power in the community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Panel | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...strategy to assign one two-page and one thirty-page paper each term. He criticized the two-pager in great detail, and marked it stiffly; thus student were driven to invest a good deal of time into the thirty-pager--only to get it back ungraded, with the comment. "I don't think one can measure an effort of this sort by a number or letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting Ahead on the Harvard Faculty--DeLoon's Handy Guide | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...walls of el barrio by the conflict of pride and circumstance. As a comedian, he clambers over the film to reach the top rank of American performers. Barking like a watchdog to frighten off apartment thieves, or purifying English curses into harmless Spanish, Arkin transforms slapstick into exuberant social comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Children's Minute | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...Without comment, he released a hitherto-secret report by a Johnson Administration antitrust task force headed by Phil C. Neal, dean of the University of Chicago law school. The group recommended new laws that would empower the Government to break up companies in industries "where monopoly power is shared by a few very large firms." It proposed a "Concentrated Industries Act" that would apply when four or fewer firms controlled 70% of an industry with $500 million a year in sales. Each firm would be forced to reduce its share of the market to no more than 12%. The scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antitrust: Surprise Formula | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | Next