Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including Shakespeare. Any adverse comment on existence might be so cited as a "complaint." The "complaint" in Dante and in Milton must indeed be enormous! The whole thing is laughable, if it were not so unjust. . . . And why all this stuff about the Pulitzer Prize? It seems very petty in the face of Mr. Auslander...
Last week Congress passed and, without comment or ceremony. President Roosevelt signed, a bill providing HOLC with another $1,750,000,000 for further Federal mortgage lifting. For the next 30 days HOLC's credit doors will again be open to qualified applicants...
...well be trying to find a standard which will give Harvard insurance against the declining ability of brilliant teachers as they advance past 40 in the classroom. He does believe that any man on the Faculty of Arts must show that he can talk constructively on something. Certainly critical comment on his subject such as essays, books, reviews, etc., will keep him alive to his subject, not research in the true sense of the term. The difference between this and the science standard is difficult to understand, but fundamental...
...stiffened and grew pale. The Chief Justice began to read. Only a few sentences had left his mouth when a newshawk scribbled on a piece of paper: ''Can there be a new Recovery Law?", passed it to Donald Richberg. A moment later it came back, bearing the comment of the NIRB Acting Chairman-a huge question mark...
...Dolores Del Rio and Pat O'Brien, behaving with notable insincerity among a lot of puzzling yellow stuff which O'Brien finds to be Mexican sunlight. There are two menaces. One is a blonde (Glenda Farrell) who wants to marry O'Brien. The other is a comment which O'Brien, as editor of a magazine called Manhattan Madness, embodied in a review of a bygone but unforgotten New York recital by Espanita (Del Rio): he referred to her dancing as the progress of a bag of bones across the stage. She is seeking revenge when...