During President Obama's first year, Hentoff praised him for ending policies of CIA renditions, but has criticized him for failing to fully end George W. Bush's practice of state torture of prisoners.

Jazz critic Nat Hentoff, who was involved in the show, recalled that during rehearsals, they kept to opposite sides of the room.

* Shapiro, Nat and Nat Hentoff, eds.

" She sounds like a particularly sensitive growl trumpeter ", according to Nat Hentoff.

) Despite this joke, Nat Hentoff reported that when he spoke to Ellington about the subject, he was " angrier than I'd ever seen him before ," and Ellington said, " I'm hardly surprised that my kind of music is still without, let us say, official honor at home.

Introduction by Nat Hentoff, history of the strip with 1970s continuities.

Max Harrison ( in the book Jazz edited by Hentoff and McCarthy in 1959 ) and Mack McCormick ( in the liner notes to his Treasury of Field Recordings, VOL.

Like several of Allen's other films ( e. g., Zelig ), Sweet and Lowdown is occasionally interrupted by interviews with critics and biographers like Allen, Nat Hentoff, and Douglas McGrath, who comment on the film's plot as if the characters were real-life people.

Cummings, Nat Hentoff, Ted Hoagland, staff writer and author, William Bastone of thesmokinggun. com, Tom Stoppard, Lorraine Hansberry, Allen Ginsberg and Joshua Clover.

Host Amy Goodman interviews current and former staff James Ridgeway Nat Hentoff, Tom Robbins, Sydney Schanberg and two reporters Mark Jacobson and Tim Redmond.

According to Nat Hentoff in his 1957 liner notes for the Blakey Columbia LP of the same name, the phrase " hard bop " was originated by author-critic-pianist John Mehegan, jazz reviewer of the New York Herald Tribune at that time.

* Hentoff, Nat.

Stone, June Jordan, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Nat Hentoff, Milton Mayer, Molly Ivins and Howard Zinn.

Nathan Irving " Nat " Hentoff ( born June 10, 1925 ) is an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal.

Hentoff was formerly a columnist for Down Beat, The Village Voice, JazzTimes, Legal Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Progressive, Editor & Publisher and Free Inquiry.

Hentoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from the Boston Latin School.

Hentoff joined Down Beat magazine as a columnist in 1952.

Hentoff continued to do a jazz program on WMEX into the early 1950s, and during that period also was an announcer on WGBH-FM on a program called Evolution of Jazz.

By the late 1950s, Hentoff was co-hosting a program called The Scope of Jazz on WBAI-FM in New York City.

In June 1955, Hentoff co-authored with Nat Shapiro Hear Me Talkin ' to Ya: The Story of Jazz by the Men Who Made It.

Hentoff went on to author numerous other books on jazz and politics.

In February 2009, Hentoff joined the libertarian Cato Institute as a senior fellow.

In January 2010 however Hentoff returned and wrote one article for the Voice.

Since February 2008 Hentoff has been a regular weekly ( Wednesdays ) contributing columnist at WorldNetDaily. com.

The Swiss press vigorously criticized the Third Reich, often infuriating German leaders.

Ford commented, " I strongly felt that although I agreed with the goals of the Johnson administration in Vietnam, I vigorously criticized their prosecution of the war.

Many academics have vigorously criticized UN-Habitat and the World Bank arguing that their ' Cities Without Slums ' Campaign has led directly to a massive increase in forced evictions.

The theory of Socialism in One Country was vigorously criticized by Grigory Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky.

At age sixty-eight, he was elected governor of South Carolina, serving from 1951 to 1955, in which capacity he vigorously criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Sultan's surrender was vigorously criticized by the public and by Tunku.

During the late forties, he vigorously criticized the House Un-American Activities Committee, became friends with Alger Hiss, divorced his first wife, and married Lucille Spectorsky in 1949.

In 2010, she vigorously criticized the pension plan drawn up by Nicolas Sarkozy and his liberal-conservative government.

Lord Bristol has expressed bitter disappointment at the sale of the right to residence in the East Wing of Ickworth House, the family seat since the 15th century, by the 7th Marquess in 1998 and has vigorously criticized the National Trust for not reselling what would have been the remaining term of that leasehold to him on the death of the 7th Marquess.

He also vigorously criticized the official arrangements for observing the transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882.

Unlike his predecessors, he vigorously enforced the anti-Catholic provisions of the 1917 constitution, implementing the so-called " Calles Law ", which provided specific penalties for priests who criticized the government ( five years imprisonment ) or wore clerical garb in certain situations outside their churches ( 500 pesos ).

The Swiss press vigorously criticized the Third Reich, often infuriating its leadership.

Many notable conservatives vigorously criticized her nomination, and numerous conservative groups normally considered part of Bush's political base planned to mount an organized opposition campaign.

Moreover, both films were criticized by the state and by traditionalists as elitist, and as pandering to foreign audiences, a charge that Tian vigorously and defiantly accepted, arguing that films were for the sophisticated.

Frankfurter, joined by Justice John Marshall Harlan II, dissented vigorously and at length, arguing that the Court had cast aside history and judicial restraint, and violated the separation of powers between legislatures and Courts.

In general, victims are encouraged to blink vigorously in order to encourage tears, which will help flush the irritant from the eyes.

The order was vigorously defended by the Cardinals Vitalis du Four and Bertrand de Turre ( de la Tour ), Archbishop Arnaldo Royardi of Salerno, and various other bishops, all Franciscans ; other cardinals opposed their views, and the pope leaned towards the opposition.

The administration's new vigorously anti-Soviet policy also became evident when, at Kennan's suggestion, the U. S. changed its long-standing hostility to Francisco Franco's fascist regime in Spain in order to secure U. S. influence in the Mediterranean.

Promos showed Piper locking himself in the Alcatraz prison and vigorously exercising in order to prepare for the highly anticipated match.

Subsequently Austrian General, upon understanding this, immediately sent a letter to Costandin-vodă, inviting him to return to his seat and join Austrians in harassing the Turk. Then Costandin-vodă, upon understanding this, called as soon as he could the Metropolitan Theodosie, as well as all his lower and higher boyars, summoning a great council on what was to be done, whereupon some of the boyars vigorously showed themselves to favor Costandin-vodă's rejection of the Turks and his joining the Austrians ; while another bunch of boyars, foremost Costandin Cantacuzino, who has been great stolnic, and Mihai Cantacuzino, the great spătar, believed this not to constitute good advice, as, where such a thing to happen, the nearby Tatars were Ottoman allies would immediately arrive with a mighty force in order to enslave and plunder the country, and the Austrians would prove of no help.

In the field of public health, he promoted vigorously preventive and educational measures to the public, and the better sanitary control of prostitutes, in order to combat venereal diseases.

At 16: 15 Ney received Napoleon's order, ( despatched at 14: 00 ), to attack vigorously.

He was a strong proponent of the New Deal alphabet-soup roster of work programs and worked vigorously and constantly with Washington to bring as many dollars to the City as possible in order to create jobs and improve the City's infrastructure.

The academy vigorously promoted the principles of Neoclassicism by sending the most notable Russian painters abroad, in order to learn the ancient and Renaissance styles of Italy and France.

Marsupials, which are an order of metatherian ( pouched ) mammals, resorb rather than deliver the placenta, and therefore cannot engage in placentophagia ; they do, however, vigorously lick birth fluids as they are excreted.

The mixture of berries is crushed and vigorously beaten in the manner of whipping cream in order to raise the typical foam of the confection.

Hsu Yun instructed his successors to earnestly and vigorously apply themselves to the cultivation of precepts, samadhi, and wisdom, in order to counteract greed, anger, and stupidity.

The Baal Shem Tov was thus determined to encourage his influential disciples ( talmidim ) to launch a spiritual revolution in Jewish life in order to reinvigorate the Jewish masses ' connections with Torah Judaism and to vigorously motivate them to bind themselves to the joyous observance of the commandments, worship, Torah study, and sincere belief in God, so that the lures of Christianity and Islam, and the appeal of the rising secular Enlightenment, to the Jewish masses would be weakened and halted.

Because of his strength as a blitz player, Grischuk employed the strategy of drawing early with white and defending vigorously with black in order to force the match into a blitz playoff.

In 1941 he escaped Poland via Turkey on the orders of his superiors in order to meet with Polish troops enlisted in the British Army in Palestine and Ethiopia to assure them that the struggle against the Nazi occupation was being waged vigorously at home with strong Allied support.