Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I read TIME'S review, I must admit the excitement of the critic communicated itself to me, and since I'm fortunate (in this case) to live in Boston, I went over and saw it. ... For the first time in my life, I was able to see Shakespeare in his proper perspective...
...John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin'"), Irish critic-dramatist whose John Ferguson was a U.S. success in 1919, but whose Boyd's Daughter ran only three Broadway performances in 1940, told a Belfast lecture audience that the British way of life was still tops. "I say that, remembering America," said he. "I have been there twice, and I would rather be in jail in this country than free in America...
Died. Count Hermann Keyserling, 65, German philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...
...handful of British and U.S. intellectuals a month ago petitioned Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence at the Niirnberg trials for a question ing of Nazi prisoners, to clear Trotsky of the charge of dealing with them. Among the U.S. signers: Socialist Leader Norman Thomas, Critic Edmund Wilson, Novelist James Farrell. Among the British signers: H. G. Wells, Arthur Koestler...
...Critic Adams,( Robert Frost said it all when he wrote that a poem "begins in delight and ends in wisdom. [It ends in] a clarification of life-not necessarily a great clarification . . . but in a momentary stay against confusion...