Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When contacted yesterday, Moynihan confirmed the events described by Manchester, but declined further comment...
...Your statement in "FAIR Shake" [March 10] that eliminating deferments for most graduate students "will all but eliminate graduate schools as a draft haven" demands comment. Such a policy could all but eliminate this country. The most formidable enemy facing not only this country but the entire human species is ignorance. Our survival may well depend upon whether some gifted kid is permitted to serve with brains and a slide-rule instead of with muscles and a rifle...
...Chinese figures with the word Kungfei, or Communist bandit. Deliveries of the X-ed issue were several days late, but the Nationalists had their figurative revenge and the last word in Taiwan on Chairman Mao as far as TIME was concerned. We feel they also provided an intriguing comment on the Chinese mentality and its preoccupation with form, subjects discussed in this week's ESSAY...
Sigmund, now associate professor of Politics at Princeton, is on sabbatical in Chile, and could not be reached for comment...
High-Voltage Drama. Coming as it does from the No. 1 man in British television, that succinct comment largely explains why it is that BBC is so consistently sprightly and compelling. No American TV executive would think such a dread thing, let alone say it. Where U.S. television programming is mostly perma-pressed, sanitized and deodorized, BBC says what it thinks, encourages controversy, and, as Sir Hugh says, does not in the least mind getting people's goats...