Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fairbank has been a critic of the government's China policy. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last March, he favored the admission of Communist China to the U.N., and argued that United States policy should aim at "getting the Peking leadership into the international order...
This is the time of what Critic Kingsley Martin has called "TV monarchy"; and no royal house works for its ratings so hard and skillfully as the British. The dignity and the distance, the pageantry, the speed to the spot of a national disaster, the miles of cut ribbons are something for the TV citizen to look up to and yet feel comfortable with. Sophisticated Britons consider it all a tiresome and maudlin joke and regard the royal family as the personification of squareness. But the general attitude is one of admiration, almost of religious reverence, and no one seriously...
Much as the cloistered university literary critic is expected to review the not-so-recent past, so the art museum, among its many obligations, is expected to review in tranquillity the previous generation and, by assembling the art ist's life work, allow a fair evaluation of his achievements...
...like the story of the Japanese spy who was getting information from the English, and they knew it," growls one critic of the report. "So they fed him plans for a battleship that would sink, he duly copied it, it was built, and it sank...
...Holly had become a nice young thing who might just shack up with anybody for nothing. Worse, Michael Kidd's choreography was more kitsch than kick, while the songs of Bob Merrill scarcely topped the success of his 1953 hit, Doggie in the Window. Holly, wrote Boston Globe Critic Kevin Kelly, was "a multiset disaster, a straightforward musical flop...