Word: commenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since the feature review of the New York Times Book Review last Sunday was of Professor J. D. Watson's book, The Double Helix, it is perhaps not too late to comment on the action of the President and Fellows of Harvard College in forbidding the Harvard University Press to publish the book. It is my feeling that this action was unwarranted and constituted a serious infringement of academic freedom. I am not a biologist, nor am I in detail acquainted with the technical issues of the controversy: I base this judgment on general grounds...
...going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt"), flappers with more booze than brain in their heads ("Ixnay, Edith, I just found out we're at the wrong party"). Some of his humor had a bitter quality, exemplified by the aircraft designer viewing a flaming crash with the comment: "Well, back to the old drawing board." But he was at his best with the double-entendre, as in his 1929 scene of a couple emerging from the woods clutching a car seat and telling a cop, "We want to report a stolen...
...next year another one got an A, and so on. Until in that ultimate year, one club member needing a paper for Ec 1 reached into the file, pulled out the paper in question, retyped it, and handed it in. He received the paper back with the following Comment: "This was an A paper when I wrote it and it's still an A paper...
...next year another man pulled out the paper, retyped it, pasted on the fish to the title page, handed it in, and received an A-. The following year, another club member withdrew the paper, retyped it, but decided against pasting on the fish, considering it a bush move. The comment: "B+. Where's the fish...
HERSHEY made it known that adminstering either plan would mean "bedlam" for the Selective Service, although last week he denied reports that he had said he could not do it. Some observers believe that his comment alone caused the President to reject the plans, but it was only one of the deciding factors. Another was that age-mix would have exempted the 200.000 men currently classified I-A who are older than 19 but have never held a II-S. The percentage plan was rejected for three additional reasons...