Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Before you leave," he said to Secretary Acheson, "would you like to make any comment about the Alger Hiss convic tion of perjury?" The Secretary paused a moment on the fateful cue. "Senator, I was not notified that I would have to make any comment," he replied. "If the committee wishes me to explain what I said, I'll do it. I have no desire to do it." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a prepared state ment, and an aide behind him began pass ing out mimeographed texts to newsmen in the room. His hands trembling...
Even before publication, Dr. Velikovsky's book has attracted wide comment and admiration. Harper's Magazine gave it a solemn preview entitled "The Day the Sun Stood Still." Collier's ran a he-man's version called "The Heavens' Burst." In the latest Reader's Digest, Fulton Oursler hailed Velikovsky as the starter of a back-to-the-Bible movement. Connoisseurs of pressagentry will credit Macmillan Co. with skilled use of an up-to-date technique: getting widest publicity for a doubtful article before critics have been allowed...
...nineteen were voted unanimously, including a half million appropriation for general running expenses. On some of the others, the discussion was log and tortuous. Article 18, "To see if the Town will vote to purchase and erect a Town Flag pole...and provide for the payment thereof," drew considerable comment from patriots, economizers and wags. In the end, the meeting voted the article down. The voters had less to say about a subsequent proposal to grant the town police force a forty-hour week. Defeat came quickly amid arguments such as "the men have civil service status and security...
Cheney, in fact, is an artist by profession. His works hang in the Boston Art Museum, and the Congressional Library. This mural may well have been one of his first works, and as such, should be of definite interest to the College. He is not available for comment now so there is no way of telling how long it took him to paint it or what the reaction of the University officials to the landscape was at the time...
William J. Gievis, a student at the Massachusetts School of Art, was cautious in his comment. He said, "I just about think he's crazy . . . some of his stuff is very naive, and yet its mature...