Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has been telegraphed an invitation to debate Robert Scheer, managing editor of Ramparts magazine and critic of the Vietnam war, when the two are in Cambridge next Sunday and Monday...
...Nerve. Despite the baroque language, Arrowsmith is no irresponsible crusader. He holds three degrees from Princeton, plus a B.A. from his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, and he taught at Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of California at Riverside before shifting to Texas in 1958. He first turned public critic in a series of Phi Beta Kappa lectures at ten campuses in 1964. At this month's convention of the American Council on Education in New Orleans, Arrowsmith boldly laid his criticisms before 1,400 college trustees, presidents and deans. He accused them of selling out to "the research professoriate...
Lawrance Thompson, the New Hampshire-born Princeton professor and critic whom Frost chose in 1939 to be his official biographer, did a lot of watching and checking. Out of nearly three decades of conversation and affectionate companionship has come an eloquent biography-this is the first of two volumes-that will surprise Frost's idolators. Thompson shows that there was very little in Frost's style that was spontaneous; he had to whittle laboriously at his poetry to achieve his roughhewn colloquial effects. Even more interesting is the author's picture of Frost as a selfish, baffling...
When the teen-aged violinist made his debut in Manhattan 25 years ago, one critic suggested that "David may turn into a musician of stature when he grows up." Only he never really grew up - physically, that is. Artistically, however, David Nadien developed into a giant. He demonstrated that last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall when he strode on stage - all 5 ft. 4 in. and 116 lbs. of him - and played Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with elegance and grace, a tone pure and silken, and a technique that was a marvel of dizzy ing leaps...
Wilson Follett, a sometime professor, magazine columnist and critic who undertook to write Modern American Usage in 1958, wanted "to do for the America of 1960 what Fowler had done for the England of 1926," but he died short of his goal five years later. His publishers, stuck with two-thirds of a book, surrendered it to a committee for completion. It was a rash decision, as General Motors' Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee...