Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst offenders were the Western clowns. The article specifically attacked the famed Fratellinis, "reactionary and bourgeois [clowns] and classical exponents of buffoon games." A Russian critic who recently praised them was severely taken to task for "not revealing the ideological character of Western clownism...
...Italian film, "Tragic Hunt," is in the best tradition of recent importations from that country in its simplicity of plot, its relaxed realism, and its superior acting. It is not, however, precisely what the Kenmore management would have you believe a New York critic called it--"The best Italian film to reach this country." It can not stand up to "Open City" or "To Live in Peace," for example, as consistently successful cinema art. Still, there are some very fine moments of melodrama in "Tragic Hunt," that rate it well with the earlier films and make its director...
...board last night, composed of Dorothy Adlow, art critic of the Christian Science Monitor, A. Tilliman Merrit '29, professor of Music, F.O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, found itself in agreement on the role of the artist in society...
...Battalion, Wessex Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, was assembled in England in January 1944 and destroyed in Normandy six months later. From the City, from the Plough is the chronicle of its infantrymen's life & death. Published last year in Britain, the book was both a bestseller and a critical success. Some reviewers described it as the All Quiet of World War II; others were reminded of Journey's End. Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published...
...tonight Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, Arthur T. Merrit '29, professor of Music, and Dorothy Adlow, art critic of the Christian Science monitor will deal with the Arts and letters section of the five day symposiums...