Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this the Club travels in the Philadelphia Academy of Music to take part in the lecture-concert with Olin Downes on Monday night. Downes, who is the music critic for the New York Times, will lecture on the history and development of Choral Music while the Glee Club illustrates by rendering chosen selections...
Already a notable literary scholar, "J. E." Spingarn went on to further triumphs as a critic (Creative Criticism). Longtime president of the N. A. A. C. P., he annually awards the Spingarn Medal, highest honor a U.S. black man can receive. Major of infantry in the War, onetime Republican candidate for Congress, Spingarn now lives quietly "as a retired capitalist," grows clematis on his 1,000-acre estate in Dutchess County...
...hailed last week by U. S. Jewry as a signal success in its determined campaign to boycott German products. But Jew and Gentile Philharmonic subscribers alike agreed that the orchestra's directors had been ill-advised to invite Herr Furtwängler in the first place. Practical, old Critic William J. Henderson of the New York Sim called attention to the fact that at least one-half the Philharmonic's patrons are Jews. Said...
...many a critic, Saint Joan is the lone instance in which the world's cleverest playwright discards the brakes of self-consciousness and permits himself one glorious swoop of spiritual freewheeling. In common with the body of Shaviana, Saint Joan turns on an agile inversion. But this inversion, the definition of a miracle as an event which creates faith, seems to spring from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade...
...lush, sentimental background suitable to the fragile beauty of British Actress Evelyn Laye, unseen on Broadway since her impersonation of another lady of sorrows in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. However, the play scarcely deserves the full ire of Walter Winchell, the New York Mirror's columnist-critic, who commented: "Sweet Aloesy...