Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charm of an essay tradition of particular grace and rambling interest, of pages of excellent poetry, and of a truly civilized outlook on life. "Fall of visionary ideals, impressed by a certain dogmatic scholarship, and when not riding any one of its literary hobbies, profoundly intellectual," a twentieth century critic described it, it was a fair and keen analysis...
...concluding, I should like to question the reviewer's criticism of the author's style, which is perhaps one of the important functions of a critic. "Mr. Calverton writes with some case, but he uses certain words such as 'bourgeois' and 'middle-class' so often that the reader becomes weary and begins to suspect that his exaggerated 'class consciousness' is. . . the result of a personal frustration of some kind...
Married. Lord David Cecil, 30, author of The Stricken Deer (biography of Poet William Cowper, which won the English $500 Hawthornden prize in 1930); and Rachel MacCarthy, daughter of Critic Desmond MacCarthy; in London. Lord David is the younger son of the Marquess of Salisbury...
...result. Although there is no guiding principle in the book, I believe I have succeeded in conveying the idea to my readers that facts are far more important than surmises, and theories. I, myself, am opposed to all theorizing in literature. And since there can be no criticism without theory, no attempt at discriminating literary judgment is successful. Literature may, thus, be viewed only from an historical viewpoint, which is the reason why I consider myself not a critic, but an historian...
From then on Sculptor Noguchi piled up an ever-increasing amount of critical praise. He returned to New York, made a series of excellent portrait heads. Crop-headed Lincoln Edward Kirstein, esthetic son of the vice president of Filene's Department Store, introduced him to Harvard University where his exhibition was considered important enough for the Crimson, undergraduate daily, to run a front-page headline: NOGUCHI AT HARVARD. The Arts Club of Chicago took him up. In 1930 he started around the world, saw his family in Tokyo for the first time in years. He showed some Japanese portrait heads...