Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most frequent criticism of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934, under which Cordell Hull has patiently woven a network of reciprocal trade treaties with 16 foreign countries, is that tariff concessions granted to any signatory country are automatically extended to 70-odd non-signatory countries with which the U. S. has "most-favored-nation" agreements. From the standpoint of Free Trader Hull, this is the strongest point of his policy since generalizing concessions tends to increase the volume of world trade. But it has given many a Hull critic an opportunity to argue that with U. S. tariff favors...
...Paris. Price: $110,000. After Mr. Widener's formal presentation, the Pennsylvania Museum put the painting on display, predicted proudly that "no person informed in the field of modern art will be able to miss the opportunity of seeing and studying a picture which has been described [by Critic Lionello Venturi] as 'the master invention of Cézanne's architectural imagination...
...zanne's works published nearly two years ago by Venturi. For the Barnes Bathers: 1900-05; for the Widener Bathers, 1898-1905. Collector Sam A. Lewisohn, who happened to be in Philadelphia, was saddened by the dispute. "Art is too beautiful to argue about," said he. Critic Sheldon Cheney opined that Les Grandes Baigneuses was not Cézanne's "best" but could not be called "fifth-rate" either. Philadelphia newspapers solemnly baited Dr. Barnes with the discovery that whereas there were 16 nude figures in the Museum's painting, the Barnes Bathers numbered only eight...
...character was Achille-Claude Debussy, who died in 1918. He had to wait until last week and the appearance of his first American biography*-his third in English-for a book that would do justice to his lush Bohemian personality and his stature as a composer. Author Thompson, music critic of the New York Sun, paints an intimate picture. Debussy not only resembled a cat; he lived with live cats and collected porcelain cats. His living cats were always grey angoras, always named Line. His women were less uniform. To him the four most important were Mme Vasnier, wife...
...English Critic Frank Swinnerton has said that Huxley "may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come." However much they admire Huxley's encyclopedic knowledge and acid wit, followers are likely to balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes...