Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously reproved, this week Critics Watts and Atkinson simultaneously retorted. Critic Watts suggested that Fascism is no matinee-chocolates matter. Critic Atkinson challenged Eleanor Roosevelt's dramatic criticism in general. He relished her description of Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance (TIME, Feb. 7) as "whimsical and charming." He caught her misnaming the Federal Theatre's ". . . one-third of a nation." He used her confession that Thornton Wilder's Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14) had "depressed her beyond words," as a way of begging the White House to back good plays "to the last typewriter...
...story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance of Messrs. Hemingway, Seldes, John Spivak (Europe Under the Terror), Raymond Gram Swing (Forerunner of American Fascism), Critic Burton Rascoe, Manuel Komroff, Sportswriter Herb Graffis...
Among contemporary American literary men, Edmund Wilson is a natural critic in the way that some writers are natural poets. He turns experience into critical formulations as poets turn them into verse. Even his novel, I Thought of Daisy, drifts into well-phrased critical discussions of the ideas held by its characters-although Daisy herself, a matter-of-fact, cheerful chorus girl, entertains ideas and men that no other important U. S. critic would try to analyze...
Even Editor De Voto's gentler essays had a way of breaking abruptly with jets of angry prose that popped out like steam escaping from a safety valve. "What," asked perplexed Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. De Voto's real grievance? This indignation at other people's errors which seems to prevent him from stating his own case, this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements of his own. . . ." Critic Wilson Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that...
With the citation, "Van Wyck Brooks: Vigorous author, evocative critic of the America of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; examiner of New England roots and exhibitor of her finest flowers," the second of these annual awards was made...