Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sound Wine Critic...
...wriggle awfully self-consciously. You say: "... Many sound wine critics con-cede . . . that in its class . . ." etc., etc. What is a sound wine critic? I am a sound wine critic. It is confounded snobbery to think that the only people who can tell good wine from bad are experts who spend their short lives sipping and spewing out, sipping and spewing out. never swallowing a mouthful for fear of perverting their taste. I myself have no fear of perverting my taste. And I am just about the only wine critic in the world...
Like her parents' Rise of American Civilization, like her husband's History of Militarism, Miriam Beard's book ends inconclusively. The composite businessman who emerges from its cluster of facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never...
...Whitney Museum, a memorial show of the water colors of Charles Demuth surrounded a festive holiday crowd with the soft, rich colors and animated line of a master whom most critics rate second only to John Marin in his medium. Demuth died in October 1935, aged 52, after 20 years of quiet painting in the old Demuth home in Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris...
Following an oration by funereal John Martin, dance critic of the New York Times, veteran Ruth St. Denis, artistic progenitor of most modern American expressionists, evoked past history as the evening's curtain raiser. The Japanese maiden of White Jade, more familiar to dance audiences of the medieval 1920s, proved the program's high point in pleasantness...