Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arlington Robinson, and George Sterling, all of whose meeds of praise decorate the dust-wrapper. To be sure, Mr. Sterling offers one sentence which is capable of a double entendre: "There is nothing like this poem in our literature", and that sentence in its rashness is indicative of the critical level of all the other statements made by the others, none of whom was or is a critic of any consequence. As the chief American poet, of course Mr. Jeffers should know better than to bless "The Hermaphrodite", which has a superficial smoothness that some people, like Mr. Benjamin...
...Memorizing slides is as necessary as learning a vocabulary, and lectures and reading cover the ground more thoroughly than Bacdeker. But the course breaks down in not tying together the monuments and paintings with their literary and historical background, and in considering wherein they appeal to the modern amateur critic...
...main point is relief," explained Critic Forbes Watson, a member of the jury...
...said, apologized. Even so, Bukharin was left not quite sure whether it had been Stalin who took umbrage at "Oblomov" or somebody else in the Party's inner circle. CRACK!-even louder that same day Pravda lashed out against Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whom every Soviet music critic has hailed as the Revolution's most brilliant genius in the realm of operatic and symphonic composition. Not only has Comrade Shostakovich been Bol- shevism's musical darling, but Capitalism in Manhattan put on its boiled shirts and sped to the splendiferous Metropolitan Opera House premiere of his master work...
...Munich in 1923. By 1930, she was one of her country's leading cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed and acted in The Blue Light...