Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Critic Max Eastman wrote this last month in The New Republic in an article which sought to attribute Author Ernest Hemingway's fondness for bloodshed to a neurosis resulting from the war, loud were the protests from Author Hemingway's loyal admirers. A more convincing if less spontaneous rebuttal to the Eastman attack was last week offered by a 468-lb. black marlin...
...Association's "inferior" members (i. e. classroom teachers) uprose against its "superior" members (i. e. principals and superintendents) who have long controlled its organization. Flayed was the influence of State superintendents, life directors and past presidents who sit ex officio on the N. E. A. assembly. Cried one critic: "We don't have ex-Presidents in the Congress . . . and. thank God. we don't have ex-Mayors in our city council. I see no reason why we should have ex-presidents of the Association on the assembly. . . . Men who once represented the feeling of their local membership...
...Erwin and by another competent performance by Franchot Tone. When Franchot Tone emigrated from the Manhattan stage last autumn, his work in plays like Green Grow the Lilacs, The House of Connelly, Success Story, had caused him to be considered perhaps the most intelligent young actor on Broadway. Drama Critic Stark Young of the New Republic wrote an accolade in which he suggested that Actor Tone's roles were "played from a solid, flexible and imaginative basis such as no other of our young actors and few of the older can show." suggested that it would be "interesting...
...passed him by as an adviser since March 4. Slightly defeatist, Mr. Young has experienced politics, international economics, big business. Last week at Cambridge's Radcliffe he weighed the New Deal, concluded that it would be neither a complete success nor an utter failure. A thoughtful critic. he predicted that "the immobility of men's minds, the persistent force of habit, the resistance to new rules" would thwart quick fundamental changes in U. S. life...
...degrees were Lewis William Douglas, director of the federal budget; Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut; Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Riverside Church, New York City; Louis Edward Kirstein, Boston philanthropist; Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory; George David Birkhoff '05, Perkins Professor of Mathematics; Philip Hale, dramatic critic of the Boston Herald; Francis Welles Hunnewell '02, secretary to the Harvard Corporation; Joseph Rochomont Hamlen, president of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...