Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claim to be any expert critic of art, far from it. But I do think . . . that drivel that you print as Art by Matisse stinks. His masterpieces look like the work of a patient in a mental institution...
Oklahoma! turned five. It was possibly the last annual milestone the Pulitzer-cited musical would pass on Broadway; she was still "fresh as a daisy," one critic reported, but her long box-office stride was slackening-as well it might. Oklahoma! had already far outrun (2,134 performances) any other musical in Broadway history*; only a handful of plays (e.g., Life with Father, Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose) had lasted longer...
...Macbeth is still good melodrama. The next to shortest of Shakespeare's plays,* and certainly the scariest, it moves at top speed for three acts-from the first appearance of the Witches to the disappearance of Banquo's ghost. As Critic A. C. Bradley once pointed out, the fourth act of most very great Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear) tends to slump. Last week's production slumps less than the play, and proceeds to a mighty laying-on of Macduff and a martial conclusion. Perhaps best of all, the new production catches an atmosphere of menace...
Wolcott Gibbs, famed dramatic critic of the "New Yorker," and Irwin Shaw, author of the play, will be among the celebrities on hand for opening night, and radio interviews have been arranged for several members of the cast and staff...
Richard D. Ellmann, instructor in English, will receive a Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professorship of English in June, the University announced last week. Ellmann, a poet and literary critic, will publish a book of criticism this summer...