Word: crit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urgent problem affecting both foreign and defense pol icy is the degree of alarm that has characterized domestic crit icism...
...element, and he no more needed an academic theory to deal with it than a dolphin needs swimming lessons. With the greatest sympathy and delicately discerning judgement he simply read the great poets. Of course, one reason he could be so persuasively dismissive of what he called "lit. crit." was that he had mastered the arcana of his own field before relegating them to his own critical lumber-room. And in talking with him you were always conscious of his irony, a quality so highly developed and anarchic in Jonathan that at times you could see it threatening to break...