Word: comments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor at Home (Sun. 1:15 p.m., ABC). The Atlantic Monthly's Editor Edward Weeks begins a weekly comment on cultural news...
...island fortress that guards the Mt. Auburn Street approaches to the Gold Coast Valeteria. The structure is fraught with symbolic significance. The western tip was designed to depict a smiling face, while the eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife and mused, "I wonder what church that...
...little time. It is the basic skill of our world, and it is one you learn getting 200 inches of copy downstairs to Art before one o'clock. As a useful byproduct you learn to turn night into day. In the daily working of the CRIMSON office comment books a man acquires the habit of candor, of free-swinging criticism, of speaking his mind: a good thing. Nowhere else in the college is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed; the rudeness of your peers does it, that and seeing your staff in print. A man learns...
...Daily "comment sheets" by the editors note the progress of eager candidates. "Conant," runs one of these memorializing the efforts of a now famous College president, "escapes only because he didn't have the chance to blunder...
Readers are not much help as critics, said Editor Pope, who felt that most casual comment on the press is ignorant and irrelevant. But, he said, "someone is going to pioneer in the new art-science of measuring and revealing the box score of the press, and I suspect it will be a uni versity. . . ." He hoped it would be a number of universities...