Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal in a favorable light and its opponents in a very unfavorable one, required no Government censorship. It is safe to say that Power, one side of the story of the Tennessee Valley Authority, will require none either. Government Playwright Arent (Triple-A Plowed Under), the onetime dramatic critic who marshaled into dramatic form the facts Mr. Watson's researchers found for him, has stacked 33 potent propagandist scenes against private ownership of utilities...
...tale of 1929, John Steinbeck's little dream story will not seem out of line with reality; they may even overlook the fact that it too is a fairy tale. An oxymoronic combination of the tough & tender, Of Mice and Men will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists. Critic Christopher Morley found himself "purified" by this "masterpiece . . . written in purest compassion and truth." Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen...
When Allen Tate, critic and poet, had written most of a long-planned life of Robert E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman's four-volume, definitive R. E. Lee (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) appeared, blew his house down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum...
Senator Henry Parkman, Jr. '15 has been active during the past 17 years as an advocate of constructive government and as a bitter critic of ex-Governor Curley. After graduating from law school and serving in France as a Captain in the army, he opened a law practice in Boston, became a city councilman in Boston and then won a seat in the statehouse...
...mother was the lineal descendant of an Ethiopian prince, whom Peter the Great had acquired from the Sultan of Turkey. It was a far cry from the Sublime Porte to the icy Russian steppes, but Pushkin bridged the distance, uniting in himself these diverse strains, for as an American critic has said, "the poet was proud of his mixed blood and flaunted with equal ostentation his aristocratic and his Negro origins...