Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rudyard Kipling briefly revisited New York and nearly died there of pneumonia, both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Queen Victoria asking to be kept informed. His more spiteful enemies said that during this illness "the writer died although the man recovered." One critic yearned publicly for the time "when the rudyards cease from kipling." But it was not to come for 37 years. During the World War that which had been Imperial England was bled until there were such things as a Labor Cabinet, a British General Strike, a Depression and 11,000,000 British votes for the League of Nations...
...theory that the most noteworthy trend of the cinema in 1935 was towards scenes of 'physical torture and brutality," and that the trend "may be related very distinctly to the national state of mind" was suggested last fortnight by Andre Sennwald, brilliant 28-year-old cinema critic of the New York Times, in an article called ''Gory, Gory Hallelujah." Same day the article appeared, the mangled corpse of Critic Sennwald was discovered in the living room of his penthouse. An explosion was caused by a spark in a gas-filled room in which he had apparently committed...
Unable to stand on both feet, Marian Anderson managed to exhibit one of the richest contralto voices that has been heard in the U. S. for many a year. One Viennese critic described her as "a black Lilli Lehmann." That she is not. But she is an exciting, sure-voiced singer who would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving...
Engagements followed as a matter of course, but mostly in Negro schools and churches. In 1930 she gambled on a trip to Germany, studied intensively for a few months, finally hired a hall for $500. Critics then pronounced her a full-fledged artist, began to heap superlatives on her voice. Thereafter she toured widely in Europe. At the Salzburg Festival last summer Critic Herbert F. Peyser of the New York Times wrote of her as "one of the greatest living singers." Even with such praise she has remained levelheaded, happiest when with her own people. She could have been roundly...
...Critic Van Wyck Brooks, looking sadly out over the U. S. literary scene and many a petered-out career, came to the conclusion that successful authors were not really born that way; at some point in their career they simply sold out. If Critic Brooks were still interested in literary careers that are still in process of petering out, he might well pick Phil Stong's as a glittering example. Author Stong's first published novel, State Fair (TIME, May 9, 1932), roused the tireless hopes of many a novel-addict, seemed to herald the coming...