Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herr Heuss, jovial, loquacious and witty, has the nimble mind of a hard-digging student. In his 65 years he has been a professor of political science, a biographer, an art critic, a newspaper publisher and an amateur artist. He is an old-fashioned German politician, from his high white collar to his economic liberalism of the Manchester laissez-faire school...
Died. William Jacob ("Will") Cuppy, 65, Indiana-born book critic (New York Herald Tribune) and humorist (How to Be a Hermit, 1929; How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, 1931; How to Become Extinct, 1941); after long illness; in Manhattan...
Negligible Bit. The hardest wallops came in the Sunday Times from a critic Britons have heard for 45 years. Gruff old (80) Ernest Newman first wanted to know "What is a festival's work?" Is its virtue, he asked, "a quality inherent in it" or does its virtue come "merely from the fact that on a particular day [a piece] is performed some hundreds of miles from where we live...
...Touching Image. In some ways, Strauss the man mirrored the strengths and weaknesses of his music. Even to the late admiring critic, Lawrence Gilman, he was a composer who could "mold a beautiful or touching or heroic tonal image, and then distort it by scrawling a bad joke somewhere on its surface." He was a man who composed a great symphonic poem about his own sometimes mean and usually money-grabbing life and called it Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life...
...wears evening gowns off the job, never goes to nightclubs. She keeps herself in fine modeling fettle-underweight (122 lbs.) and hard as a pole vaulter-by swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and gardening on her new four-acre farm. Daughter Mia frequently functions as her mother's severest critic. Whenever she does not like one of Lisa's ads, she pencils in bold crayon corrections or, by cutting down one of her mother's nightgowns, herself demonstrates a better pose...