Word: comments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nason was not available for comment last night, but earlier he had termed the editorial on the Kinsey report the culmination of "several semesters of irresponsibility by the Phoenix staff for the welfare of the entire college...
Editorial comment on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" has proved too strong a potion for Quaker tastes. As a result the 68-year-old Phoenix, Swarthmore College newspaper, has been forced to suspend publication...
...play itself has already created considerable comment because of its audacious some would say-reworking of a theme ostensibly treated finally by Shakespeare. The author, Ari Ibn-Zahav, has altered and reinterpreted "The Merchant of Venice," keeping many of Shakespeare's characters and large sections of the plot...
...years ago Sacheverell Sitwell and his brother Osbert and sister Edith sued for libel (and won) when London's Reynolds News declared that oblivion had claimed them and "they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." Sacheverell Sitwell's latest reminiscences make it clear that the comment hurt. But it is a whole school of writing, or even a whole civilization, that is remembered with a kindly and cynical smile, and The Hunters and the Hunted suggests that there were values within it which the present might consider before consigning it to oblivion...
...Hunters and the Hunted is a quiet book of comment on art and literature and history and birds-on whatever comes to Sacheverell Sitwell's well-stocked mind, in this winter of the spirit, that summons up recollections of richer creative times. It is an intellectual banquet like one of those he describes at the court of Constantine, where the dessert was brought in three chariots and raised to the table by ropes which descended from a ceiling of golden foliage...