Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critic, Columnist David Lawrence, pointed a monitory finger at Section 5299 of the U. S. revised statutes. That law says that whenever "domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State" so obstruct the execution of its laws as to ''deprive any portion or class of the people'' of their rights it shall be lawful for the President "and it shall be his duty" to use Federal force to restore order. Another newer critic, Columnist Walter Lippmann, wanted to know whether the President would be any better equipped to deal with strikes...
...Boston Bar Association, continuing his law office at 10 Postoffice Square when well past his 98th year. He passed his bar examination in 1868, six years after graduation from college. Four of the intervening years were taken up with naval service in the Civil War. An outspoken critic of the New Deal, he reiterated his stand on his last birthday by blaming the Roosevelt administration for "the greatest demoralization in our history". He was also one of the major donors of the Harvard Theatre Collection, considered one of the finest in the country...
Also on view in the front hall of the Library, is an exhibition of books belonging to the well-known Boston music-critic, Philip Hale, presented by his wife. Hale was well known as a book collector, and part of his collection of first editions of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville are shown here...
...book's most telling denunciation of modern painting comes not from Mrs. Logan but in a quotation from Critic Henry Rankin Poore, who to her great delight wrote : "At a recent exhibition of an interesting group of French 'Moderns' . . . was a small picture by Matisse of a sauce pan containing two broken eggs lying on a spotted cloth. . . . The eggs had dark brown shadows and even to the uncritical eye of man appeared doubtful. . . . On inquiring the price, it was found to be $5,000. . . . Let us appraise the components of the transaction: Canvas $1.00 Pigment...
...tempers of Manhattan play reviewers are prone to grow shorter in the spring, when the general air of relaxation tempts fledgling producers and first-play authors to emerge hopefully from Broadway's crannies. Last week one critic compared Arms for Venus to a toothache and another mentioned a session in a dentist's chair...