Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...something special to offer in the field of history because it can present to the student actual works from a period under study, rather than mere textbook-reading. The work in most courses, nevertheless, calls for the student to describe and analyze works of art and to comment on them as examples of a particular period or trend...
While it is not the responsibility of the Harvard Student Council or the Lowell House Committee to justify itself for every vicious, erroneous letter which the "Harvard" CRIMSON finds itself obliged to publish, the extreme to which George L. Wronn '50 carries malicious untruth deserves some comment. It has rightly been said that if untruth is grass enough it will often be believed...
...Nation (circ. 35,889), which usually takes itself and the world with knit-browed gravity, took a lighter view last week of the current "apocalyptic writing." If the bomb destroys the world, wrote Associate Editor Robert Bendiner, "everyone will be prepared with the proper ironic comment." But if the end comes from a "brush with a ... comet, we'll all be caught flatfooted . . . Habits being what they are, the press of the Day Before will handle the approaching calamity as follows...
...creation of mood (Mr. Fleisher is well-traveled in the morbid regions of the human heart. In this case we are dealing with a hospital orderly who has always wanted to see a patient die, and finally gets his chance). "But the author must gild his story with psychological comment: "Life itself was nothing more than a perpetual dying, and because it was so, was more life. Paradox lay at the root of all being." Fortunately, however, there is little of this stuff; for those who don't mind cadavers "The Death of Adam Sadman" is a fine...
...other undergraduate organizations appeared at yesterday's hearings, and four more announced their intention to comment on the rules, although they did not appear yesterday...