Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allow me to thank you for your . . . understanding article on my late husband's work [TIME, Oct. 18] now being shown at the Museum of Modern Art . . . Your critic is ... one of the very few who took the time and the thought, not only to look at the sculpture, but to see it and to evaluate...
...famed group finally been stunted by its arid totalitarian climate? Yes, thinks one of the few foreign observers competent to judge. Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times's drama critic and onetime Moscow correspondent, saw the Art Theater in 1923, 1935 and 1945-46. Atkinson believes that the clammy hand of bureaucracy has turned the Art Theater into something routine and mechanical. Says he: the great spirit that nurtured Gorky and Chekhov and inflamed theater-lovers the world over is gone...
...guest list at Oppie's hotel this year will also include Historian Arnold Toynbee, Poet T. S. Eliot, Legal Philosopher Max Radin-and a literary critic, a bureaucrat and an airlines executive. There was no telling who might turn up next: maybe a psychologist, a Prime Minister, a composer or a painter. Oppenheimer was just working up courage: "If a man is a full professor at Harvard, he may be a fool, but he's a respectable fool. In the world of action, criteria for acceptability are more confused...
...addition to being a playwright, music critic, economist and socialist soapboxer, Shaw has long fancied himself an amateur biologist. When Darwinian doctrine swept England like a Caribbean storm, Shaw thought it a creed "compared to which the" story of Noah was cheerful and encouraging," and-stoutly fought against Darwin's claim that there was no purposive mind behind the universe. Even those who thought he lost the battle of science should readily admit that he wins the battle of wits, hands down...
Died. Royal Cortissoz, 79, sprightly, bang-haired veteran art critic (the New York Herald Tribune), painting's No. 1 champion of traditionalism ("Cézanne . . . never fully mastered his craft"); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...