Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historian Charles A. Beard, in a solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian. Official Medal-Pinner Van Wyck Brooks took pains to point out in his speech that the members were paying homage to "the qualities in his life and his work about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard...
Even after success came to Claude Debussy with his Pelleas et Melisande and Prélude a l'Après-midi d'un Faune, the bearlike composer helped support himself for nearly ten years by scribbling pieces for Paris journals. A collection of his musical criticisms called Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater (Lear; $2.75), long out of print in the U.S., was republished this week. Music-lovers who admire Composer Debussy may not always agree with Critic Debussy-but some of his judgments are as luminous as his music. For his critical 'dirty work and malicious...
Miss Hepburn's beautiful voice has, thank God, never changed, although sometimes I wish TIME'S critic would...
...Unlike Miss Hepburn's voice, TIME'S critic does...
...Worldling. No crusader, but an able newsman on a left-of-center course, is smooth, bespectacled Joe Barnes, 41, brother of Howard Barnes, the Trib's drama critic. (A third brother, Bernard, is assistant to TIME'S Vice President Howard Black.) A professor's son who was Crimson president at Harvard ('27), Joe Barnes did postgraduate work at the University of London's King's College and has batted around the world for 20 years as a student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent...