Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artificial delirium." Ike himself didn't think it was quite so bad, although, like any neophyte author, he had a few doubts. In the New York Times Book Review he admitted that "I'm still not dead sure [it was worth bringing out]. I'm no critic. I've been a soldier all my life, and when you come down to it it's simply an old soldier's story...
...average, cinemogul regards film critics as either free pressagents or costly saboteurs. Even when a bad picture is a box-office hit, the moviemaker resents the critic who has called it bad. MGM, which specializes in movies that the public loves, is particularly touchy about critics who refuse to love its products.* Last week MGM's dislike of unfriendly reviewers had roused all of London's critics to battle...
...fight raged around Novelist E. (for Eileen) Arnot Robertson, who in 1946 was dropped as BBC's film critic after M-G-M charged that her reviews were "unnecessarily harmful." Because the movie company publicized its complaining letter to BBC, Miss Robertson sued for libel and slander and collected $6,000 damages (TIME, July...
...year later M-G-M persuaded a higher court that its letter was merely "fair comment," innocent of "malice." The court, reversing the decision, confronted Critic Robertson with a bill for $20,000 in costs -and her colleagues with the alarming possibility that they hold their jobs only at the pleasure of movie producers...
Britain's most venerable and most crotchety critic, George Bernard Shaw, just couldn't be bothered. The Shavian reason: there is a tacit agreement between critic and management not to go to law, since the critic always libels and the management always agrees to the libel in exchange for publicity...