Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aesop offers perhaps the best comment-and the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert. Once, he relates, a group of mice held a council to determine what they should do about a voracious cat. Finally one young mouse came up with a proposal to put a bell around the cat's neck, providing the mice with an early warning system. But with their tunnel vision, none of the assembled specialists thought to ask the most crucial question until a grey old mouse-a generalist, no doubt-rose. Who, he asked quietly, would put the bell around...
...reserved for prices ranging upward from $35,000 for the smallest multiple-image portraits. For nearly 20 years, he has been renowned in inner circles as Britain's finest figurative painter; his works have hung in U.S. museums since the early 1950s. His commercial success is a telling comment on just how open-minded the general public has become, for Bacon's material is, to put it simply, sick...
News assistant news editor Aanu Mungo defended the pictures as "tender," and said that the News does not expect much administrative action. Mungo claimed that most student reaction has been favorable, and added that the next issue would offer comment on the University's statement...
...Hillary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, plans to introduce a resolution calling for ROTC's removal from the campus at the Faculty meeting on December 3. Putnam's resolution will be similar to one passed at an SDS meeting on Monday, Ford said. Putnam was not available last night to comment on the report, but several SDS members confirmed that Putnam would present the SDS resolution...
...give an idea of what his film is about. He says that when it came out in Czechoslovakia, forty thousand firemen resigned, and in order to appease them he had to say that the firemen in the film were actually symbolic representations of society. But then, in a real comment about himself, he undercuts everything he has said by stating that the film is just about firemen. Forman presents a simple story that might easily be loaded with meaning--but he denies that...