Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intense first-hand experience under a Fascist dictator. Editor of a labor paper in Trieste when Mussolini came to power, Silone was pursued by Black Shirts for three years (they killed his brother), escaped in 1931 to Switzerland, where he has since become Mussolini's most embarrassing critic...
...venomous tongue of the Yankee Press of Civil War Days. This bitterness has at last died in Georgia. . . . It should certainly not persist in the uninvaded North. . . . The U. S. Navy has a destroyer by the name of Semmes. . . . The service evidently takes a different view from your unenlightened critic...
Sheridan's "The Critic" will inaugurate the Dramatic Club's thirtieth season when it is presented at the Peabody Playhouse in Boston on December...
...Rosenthal, 25 and mopheaded, sat down to a piano in Manhattan's old Steinway Hall, crashed and rippled through Liszt's finger-punishing Don Juan Fantasia. Manhattan concertgoers, most of whom had never heard of him, gaped in awe at his flying fingertips. Next day the sedate critic of Manhattan's New York Tribune wrote: "It was a question whether an audience composed of discriminating music lovers in this city has ever been stirred to such a pitch of excitement...
Breeziest, most rambunctious, most irreverent of Broadway's daily critics is the Journal and American's tall, ruddy John Anderson. In his chili-sauce style, he has sassed Walter Winchell. greeted a stage character who took too long to die with "Here's your shroud, Mr. Quimby, what's your hurry?", described a play as having "the same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash...