Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are a few points in Freddy's style, however, which have not reached the full bloom of maturity, and it is with these that I am concerned. I am sure he will no mind if I play the critic, but will take it all in the spirit of helpful cooperation in which it is intended...
...visiting lecturer at the University since 1934, Salvemini taught in Italy before Mussolini's rise to power forced the outspoken critic of Fascism to flee his native land
...Paris last week for an "indefinite stay" was elegant, hollow-eyed Margherita Sarfatti, once a great personal friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted...
...racial and religious discriminations against teachers in other lands -which they deplored*-2,500 members of the Modern Language Association met for their 55th convention last week in Manhattan. On hand to comfort them with a puckish ode to "useless knowledge" was Dr. Joseph Wood Krutch, literary critic and English professor at Columbia University...
...week in the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. There Her Grace, the wealthy, 64-year-old Duchess of Atholl stood for re-election on a straight platform of 100% opposition to Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of dealing with dictators. Long a sharp-tongued critic of Mr. Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Duchess, one of the brainiest women in British politics, has been tagged with such sobriquets as "Red Kitty" or the "Red Duchess" because of her support of Loyalist Spain and other causes unloved by Mr. Chamberlain's Conservative Party...