Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Manhattanites who used to live there, has been variously entitled the bedroom of New York City, a group of small towns, "the city of churches," and New York's "rive gauche" (left bank). But Brooklyn has an esthetic tradition all its own. There lived Poet Walt Whitman, Critic James Gibbons Huneker, Artist Joseph Pennell. There in the picturesque "Brooklyn Heights" section overlooking New York Harbor, live many refugees from Manhattan's "arty" and despoiled Greenwich Village, including one of the most touted figures in contemporary painting- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (TIME, April 7). And Brooklyn has an art museum...
...Radcliffe, of "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" which will appear for three days at the University Theatre beginning Thursday. Two prizes are offered by the theatre management, the winner of the Radcliffe contest and the Harvard winner each receiving $10. The reviews, which will be judged by the Dramatic Critic of the Radcliffe paper and the CRIMSON Playgoers, must be submitted to the CRIMSON Building by noon, Monday, May 25th. The winning Harvard review will be published in the CRIMSON...
...first popular novel (Far from the Madding Crowd) produced such a sensation, both in England and America, that he would have been stupid to quit. That he had not too high an opinion of either his prose or his poetry, he indicated in a letter to U. S. Critic Jeannette Gilder : ". . . my respect for my own writings and reputation is so very slight that I care little about what happens to either, so that the rectification of judgments, etc., and the way in which my books are interpreted, do not much interest...
Says he: Publishers Simon & Schuster have most successfully developed the art of "panicking" the public into buying their books-books often intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature...
...fashioned saloon; between long, refreshing pulls at their schooners they utter, effortlessly and comfortingly, their dazed views on the fall of empires and the rise of Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science is anachronistic. "The discarded scientific concepts of the last three centuries are on the grow. The scientist cannot stop them from growing because they are too easy, too plausible and too teachable. . . . [The Mob character] is a cockney character, self-confident, contemptuous...