Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...risk of being jailed for subversive activities and being sued by TIME for infringement of copyright, we made editorial comment on your article and lifted paragraphs from...
...embassies at Tokyo and Peking. Droll and irreverent, Alcott airs all Japanese protests against his show, constantly cracks at a pair of typical Japanese named "Mr. Suzuki" and "Mr. Watanabe," whom he uses to serve as the personification of Rising Sun arrogance. Especially embarrassing to the Japanese is his comment on the arrival in Shanghai of U. S. visitors who go to the East as guests of the Japanese Board of Tourist Industry. Announcing how much it has cost the Japs to bring out each visitor, he points out to the newcomers that the New Order in Asia...
Night after night, throughout the voyage, a comet increased upon the sky. Without insistence or even comment Demaison invests this comet and, at length, the whole of his narrative, with a strange symbolic radiance. At the end, the comet masked by storm, the ship helmed by a halfwit, he is wrecked. When he comes to, he, the halfwit, a dog, a cat, sit on the sand and gaze into the gashed hull. The beach is one intricate fabric of escaping footprints. The most valuable of the animals were insured; he is glad of their liberty. Into the sack that once...
...recent weeks TIME'S mail has run in turn to the questions of U. S. isolation v. aid for the Allies, National Defense, the quality of President Roosevelt as a leader in crisis. Gradually the temperature of the comment has mounted and all these questions have tended to merge into one. Herewith representative samples of this churning of reader opinion...
Hearstpapers handled the Wiegand piece with care, and played its headlines way down. Unspectacular also - but devastating - was the press conference comment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "That brings recollections." - e.g., unwanted Austria, disclaimed Sudetenland, renounced Bohemia, Moravia, useless Memel, undesired Poland...