Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statistical critic who reported on the cinema Love Finds Andy Hardy [TIME, Aug. 8] must have been an insurance agent, surely is a sourpuss...
Information Please (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBC-Blue). Critic Clifton Fadiman leads his corps of experts through radio's merry and most scholarly question-and-answer bee. The experts: Newspaper Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, Sportswriter John Kieran, Novelist Alice Duer Miller...
This week the proofs of a volume* of Hawthorne aphorisms, exhortations and technical advice, assembled from notes taken by his students, appeared with a warm introduction by venerable Critic Royal Cortissoz. Made up of brief, pungent essays on water color and oil painting, followed by paragraphs devoted to Hawthorne comments on specific work by his students, Hawthorne an Painting proved an excellent introduction for laymen and students alike...
...made disguise, Cairnes set out to avenge his son, soon finds himself involved in a conventional dilemma-one of seven suspects in a murder case, all with unsatisfactory accounts of their actions at the time of the killing. The mystery is literary because its solution depends largely on a critical analysis of a piece of writing: a sensitive detective finds revealing insincerity in a piece of prose which might well get by a professional critic. With this tour de force, Author Lewis hurries his story to a conclusion as surprising as the fact that a poet wrote...
...dance departments in other colleges, leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington's modern dancers heaved together in a lusty assembl...