Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auden's lecture, entitled "The Ironic Here," dealt with the problems facing Cervautes when he portrayed, in "Dau Quixote," a truly Christian here in the epic tradition. Auden, recently described by one critic as "the most intelligent poet writing in English today," approached the subject in the manner of a creative artist, not by critical analysis...
...good art being painted in the U.S.? Britain's highbrow magazine Horizon scanned the U.S., and found three little sunbeams peeping through. "The most powerful painter in America," wrote Manhattan Critic Clement Greenberg, is Jackson Pollock, who painted this...
Among all the veteran newsmen, big byliners and trained seals who covered the royal wedding, there was one notable cub. For Rebecca West, 55, famed as a novelist, critic and deep student of homo politicus (TIME, Dec. 8), it was her first assignment in spot news reporting. Editor Herbert Gunn of London's Evening Standard had given her his paper's only pass to Westminster Abbey...
Thinking it all over, the Daily News's Drama Critic John Chapman felt depressed. "Not even for one night should one of the world's great theaters be turned over to boors, sots and publicity seekers," he wrote. "Next year, they [should] hand-pick their first audience and call in the FBI if need be to screen...
...Dudley Nichols. O'Neill, an old friend, would not permit the film to be made unless Nichols produced, directed and wrote the script. All credit for risking $2,250,000 in the venture belongs to RKO, which may have some trouble getting its money back. As one critic put it: "Average moviegoers are going to talk back to this picture...