Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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INCIDENTALLY, TIME IGNORED THE MAIN POINT OF MY . . . COMMENT TO CARLETON COLLEGE SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS ABOUT COLUMNISTS: "THEY ARE MODERN EQUIVALENTS OF THE MUCKRAKERS OF LINCOLN STEFFEN5' AND IDA TARBELL'S DAY OR THE PAMPHLETEERS OF TOM PAINE'S TIME. MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE THOSE WRITERS OR THEIR ETHICS, BUT THEY UNQUESTIONABLY PERFORMED A USEFUL SERVICE...
...United States than in any other country of the world . . . people in America are, for the most part, poorly informed. This is not the fault of the daily newspapers ; they print all the news. It is not the fault of the weekly "reviews"; they adequately develop and comment on the news. To say with the facile cynic that it is the fault of the people themselves is to beg the question. People are uninformed because no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend on simply keeping informed...
...Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) remains after half a century one of Shaw's, and hence the modern theater's, most vigorous plays. Shaw has often been more amusing, and sometimes more electrifying or profound. But in Caesar, using comedy with little flippancy, he achieved sharp comment; and with history for a pedestal, he set something Roman and solid upon...