Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful radiance in the window of Luini's art dazzled Critic John Ruskin,*who called him "ten times greater than Leonardo." Luini, he wrote, "paints what he has been taught to design wisely and has passion to realize gloriously." In that sentence, Ruskin neatly underlined the double dependence of religious...
...Critic Ruskin criticized, see BOOKS...
...Shaw merely an iconoclastic critic of humanity's failings who exaggerated for the sake of sensation? Not according to him: like Lear's Fool, he meant every word he said. "The real joke," he once remarked, "is that 1 am in earnest...
Pose of Arrogance. Worshipful Critic Eric Bentley, who has tried to truss Shavian doctrine into a system of thought, is one of the few who still pay unflagging homage to Shaw's ideas. For him Shaw is not merely a brilliant playwright who handled the English language with a clarity and wit unrivaled since Swift; Shaw is also a profound thinker whose "pose of arrogance was a deliberate strategy in an utterly altruistic struggle" to irritate men into thought. But the "utterly altruistic struggle" failed, and there was Shaw's tragedy: he, the court jester, was idolized...
Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). James Mason in Painted Veils, James Huneker's story of an aging music critic on Christmas...