Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language in the production did not bother me at all. I was prosaic enough to take the "Did the earth move?" dialogue as gypsy lore. Let's just assume that your critic has neither been a gypsy nor ever made love on a mountainside. I've never been a gypsy either, but I have made love on a mountainside. Could this have helped...
Sight and Insight, by Alexander Eliot. With love and 20/20 vision, an art critic looks at the life of art and the art of life...
...Incredible" Job. The Christian Century's drama critic, the Rev. Tom F. Driver, who also teaches Practical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, criticized MacLeish for making his play a non sequitur by jumping down from the theological discussion between God and Satan to dwell upon J.B.'s purely human sufferings...
...high official. But at all other times his missionary zeal is best defined by a plaque that hangs in the walnut-paneled Detroit office where he reigns as boss of American Motors. A facetious gift from the Cleveland Auto Dealers Association, it reads: "To George Romney, critic, lecturer, anthropologist, white hunter of the American dinosaur...
...gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed." Dinner "tasted like a discarded mailbag." Since Detective Marlowe was acceptable to brows of every altitude, including snobbish Critic Edmund (Axel's Castle) Wilson, even parboiled eggheads could carry Chandler's thrillers under their arms without resorting to plain wrappers...