Word: carp
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will feel grateful for a timely, informative article. There is but one story; better so than to lower the standard. "The Finger of the Muse" advisedly deals in experience true to boy life, and presents it with a light touch that removes crudity. This is not the moment to carp: the "Monthly" is in able hands...
...expiration of the Bayrenth copyright. There seems to be a slight inconsistency between the statement that Parsifal as a character is one of Wagner's dramatic failures and the following acknowledgement that a good singing actor can make the role entirely convincing. But all this is not to carp unduly. The problem in all criticism, musical or general, is how to hold the balance true between courage and personal conviction and a broad estimate of different aspects. The unsigned accounts of the individuality and style of Erie Satie, in which we recognize the facile pen of Mr. Damon, certainly proves...
...Cronyn's "Dionysos Eleutherios" is stirring verse of high order. The lilt and the changing mood of the poem are admirable. If the reviewer may be permitted to carp, he would add merely that the moral seems a bit forced and that perhaps no specific moral at all would be better than one which seems to suggest a temperance tract...