Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Public Works. Mr. Bruce was made secretary of an advisory committee on Fine Arts. In Washington last week a meeting of that committee was held at Artist Bruce's home. On hand in addition to Messrs. Robert and Bruce were Art Critic Forbes Watson as technical director, President Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, Braintruster Rexford Tugwell, CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins. The Com mittee was given $3.000.000 to provide work for 2.500 artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly...
Pudgy, beer-bibbing Critic Henry Louis Mencken led an outraged charge by members of the "Saturday Night Club" upon two drunks who, loudly denouncing War, tried to crash into the club's meeting in the back room of a Baltimore restaurant. With Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Biologist Raymond Pearl, Conductor Gustav Strube at his heels, Critic Mencken chased the rowdies to the street, collared them, had them jailed overnight. Next day he made them sign a release, crowed: "If they're Communists I don't trust them. They'll go back to Washington and claim they...
...Carnegie Foundation. President Jessup has for 18 years impressed and persuaded millionaires and Iowa legislators alike. He found a university with an enrollment of 3,500. a plant worth $8,000,000. He is leaving nearly 10,000 students housed in a $19,000,000 plant. Even his bitterest critic. Editor Verne Marshall of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, last week conceded "[The university's] magnificence is largely Jessupian. As an organizer President Jessup is unusually effective. . . . Also, he is as ruthless as such men must...
...things theoretical is that the Fascist reader can contentedly describe the volume as bunk, the internationally minded Socialist can contentedly read about the development of a world "communal organization", and the old school liberal can contentedly pore over an internationalism based on natural law and democracy. Even the critic can contentedly point to inconsistencies like the building up of an analogy between the individual citizen under municipal law and the individual state under international law, which is explained away when no longer useful...
...literary ethic intact after "The Savage Pilgrimage". As a document for the understanding of the controversy. Mr. Murry's book is valuable, as a key to Mr. Murry's psychology it takes rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise" on God. The excerpts from his criticisms of Lawrence's books give new substance to Middleton Murry's position as the ablest critic in England; it is unfortunate that the text should show him forth as one of the strangest men she has ever produced...