Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connoisseur who bought the best colored block prints for a few pennies each, as Americans of the day bought Currier & Ives. Ukiyoye, like the Currier & Ives, were mostly genre scenes and tourist views, but the similarity ended there. Glowed the New York Sun's scholarly art critic Henry McBride, after seeing the Met's collection: "It is difficult to think of any other people in any other age who maintained so high a standard in 'popular...
Wiese went to New York in 1926 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin, a letter of introduction to book critic Harry Hansen and an itch to edit. Hansen introduced him to McCall's Editor Harry Payne Burton, who hired him. A few months later, when the temperamental Burton left, William B. Warner, president of McCall's board, asked young Wiese to tell him in writing what ought to be done to improve McCall's. Warner thought Wiese's first report too frivolous, asked for another. Wiese handed it in one morning, came back after...
...Englander, the poet spent his last years writing long blank-verse narratives, three of them based, as were Tennyson's Idylls of the King, on Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Subtle and skillful as these were-more so than Tennyson's-they are not, in Critic Winters' opinion, Robinson's best work. He has selected eleven short poems, all written before 1925, which "can be equaled, I think, in the work of only four or five English and American poets of the past century and a half...
...TIME'S critic listen again before passing judgment on one of Brahms's last and most mature works, the Second Clarinet Sonata [TIME, Nov. 25]. Far from banality, this, the greatest of all clarinet sonatas, has the warmth and depth that only a Brahms could give to Romantic music...
...year class as a freelancer, and as art director of an advertising agency, snub-nosed Paul Rand still looks very much like the kid who spent his evenings studying commercial art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He has never stopped studying, and he insists that Critic Roger Fry, Novelist André Malraux and Philosopher John Dewey have taught him a lot about the uses of art, "although I don't understand them half the time...