Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved to Manhattan and took it by storm in 1917 with an exhibition of a totally different kind: a roomful of carved comments on modern life. Now Nadelman's slimmed-down Venuses did high kicks, his Jupiters wore boiled shirts and derby hats, his Muses played the piano. Critic Henry McBride described the show as "culture to the breaking point." It all but sold...
Catastrophic Effect. Another point agreed on without much fuss was that most modern art, like most art of any period, is second-rate or worse. "We have lived," said British Critic Raymond Mortimer, "[in an art age] dominated by a few men of extraordinary imaginative power, like Matisse, Picasso and Braque. Greatly as I admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music...
...Troxell, Radcliffe '49, will direct "At Liberty," a work by the winner of the 1947 New York Critic's Circle award. The Workshop has brought in Mary Manning Howe, known throughout Cambridge and Boston theater circles, to handle its second presentation...
George Polk's body was found floating in Salonika Bay on May 16. The corpse was bound with 30 feet of rope and had a bullet wound in the base of the skull. While serving as a Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent in Greece, Polk had been an outspoken critic of the Greek Royalist government...
...Published in 1945 by the Essex Institute (75?). Most famous contemporary member of the family was the late Frank Crowninshield, urbane (and unpredictable) art critic and onetime editor of Vanity Fair (TIME, Jan. 5), who sometimes spoofed secretarial job hunters by showing them pictures of gauze-draped dancers, remarking, "This is what we do Saturday afternoons...