Word: criticals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later renounced the church -and a conscientious objector who served five months in prison for draft resistance during World War II. In his later years, he suffered from manic-depression and was often in mental institutions. He had three wives, all writers: Novelist Jean Stafford, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick and English Novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Byronic drama of his marriages made its way into Lowell's poetry, where he quoted his wives' letters and reproaches, chronicled his infidelities and begged forgiveness. But he portrayed his worldly sorrows with a fervor transcending mere confession. There are, for example, these...
Among the offended was one critic from the Cleveland Leader, who wrote about Stokowski in 1912 when he was leaving the Cincinnati Orchestra to conduct in Philadelphia...
...that the true vanner, at heart, is not fundamentally interested in getting anywhere, only in going. This notion suggests that he (or she) may be the very embodiment of the American traveler envisioned by Social Critic-Historian Daniel Boorstin in his 1961 book The Image...
DIED. Mark Schorer, 69, respected novelist, literary critic and biographer whose definitive work, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, became a bestseller in 1961; of a blood infection following bladder surgery; in Oakland, Calif...
...steadily tightened its hold on the turf. Under Editor Geoff Miller it has spiced how-where-what consumerism with monthly contributions by such luminaries as Joyce Haber (The Users), who can be a sharp social observer as well as the town's top gossipist, and acerbic Movie Critic John Barbour-along with some of the shrewdest assessments of food, wine and film of any city magazine...