Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip Wylie, raucous critic of contemporary U.S. folkways (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals), had thought up the title for his new book: Opus 21; Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age-A Concerto for a One-Man Band-Six Arias for Soap Opera-Fugues, Anthems and Barrelhouse...
...same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, Composer Aaron Copland, Poet Louis Untermeyer, New York Times Critic Olin Downes...
...Sharp at 8:45 p.m., his shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein reported he "marched embar-rassedly." Said wife Doris Monteux, 54, who does most of Pierre's talking: "Embarrassedly, my eye . . . He's just like an old circus horse. He's awfully sophisticated, but awfully innocent...
...across far more than could paragraphs of pedantic description. Consider his characterization of Mr. Philbrick Grimes, the school busybody, who "zoomed into Princeton at seventeen," and "Kept up a figurative rubbing all the time he talked, like a cat sounding out a hearth." Yet Burns speaks not only as critic, but as philosopher as well: "Capitalism, at least when it's unpanicky, has always tolerated revolutionary criticism from within its own body...
Levine also stated that Nicholas Slonimski, Boston music critic, had agreed to speak on the same platform with Shostakovitch. Howard Hanson, American composer and president of the Eastman School of Music, has tentatively accepted an HLU invitation to speak if Shostakovitch comes between Wednesday, April 20, and Sunday, April...