Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four final candidates for the Prize, Gide had been longest on the Academy's list. Runners-up: Benedetto Croce (81), Italian historian, philosopher and estheticist; T. S. Eliot (59), Anglo-Catholic poet and critic, who, unlike Gide, is an exponent of traditionalism; and François Mauriac (62), French novelist...
Bergel's talk tonight will analyze the relationships among Cervantes, Hegel, and Kafka. A widely-known literary critic and chairman of the German department at Queens, Bergel is a specialist in the relations between contemporary German and traditional European literary figures...
...Chicago Daily News's Critic C. J. Bulliet led the sneering section with the remark that "these ' 'isms,' grown stale and sterile in the lands of their origins, are further enfeebled crossing the Atlantic." Whatever the critics might say, Director Daniel Catton Rich was convinced that he was showing not the dead hand of the past but the shining face of the future. Only ten years ago, documentary "American School" painting of barnyards, brick cityscapes and beautiful vacation views had been the style. Now, Institute scouts, back from a 24,000-mile trip around...
About actors, authors, painters there is almost nothing a critic cannot safely say -as long as he sticks to a criticism of their public performance.* Sample, from the Des Moines Leader, describing the Cherry Sisters at the turn of the century: "Erne is an old jade of 50 summers; Jessie is a frisky filly of 40; and Addie, the flower of the family, a capering monstrosity of 35. Their long skinny arms . . . swing mechanically [and wave] frantically at the suffering audience. The mouths of their rancid features opened like caverns, and sounds like the waitings of damned souls issued therefrom...
...When Critic John Ruskin accused Artist James Whistler of "wilful imposture," the jury held that this reflected on Whistler's personal integrity, not his art, and so was libelous. Whistler asked ?1,000 damages, received one farthing...