Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observed a critic of the Capitalist press in the radical New Masses last week: "The [New York] Daily News, pro-Roosevelt, pro-NRA, is utterly insincere. The proof? It is owned by the McCormick Chicago Tribune...
...Yale this year, and bearing the imprint of the Yale University Press, The Higher Learning in America is the sum of Robert Maynard Hutchins' observations as Dean of the Yale Law School, as President of the University of Chicago and as an exceedingly lively, sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued critic of the U. S. educational scene...
...usual, professional art critics whose annual junket to Pittsburgh is a sort of esthetic American Legion Convention, turned up their noses at the choices of the prize jury. In 1934 they objected to Peter Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote...
...Added Critic Edward Alden Jewell in the New York Times...
Last week a U. S. magazine of ripe years and rich reputation came to an end in all but name when Life was purchased by TIME Inc. With its November issue now on the presses, that civilized funsheet will, after 53 years, cease to function as the good-humored critic, the caustic commentator on the U. S. scene, will pass into the realm of great things gone forever...