Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of three Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, Walter Gellhorn, a member of the Law Faculty at Columbia University for 33 years, said that the U.S. needs a trained professional critic of the government. Such a critic might be similar to the Swedish ombudsman...
Savage Joke. Last week Merrick's Marauders struck again at Taubman's successor, Stanley Kauffmann. On a recent trip to London, Merrick found 100 copies of The Philanderer, a 1952 novel by Critic Kauffmann that falls pat to Merrick's purpose-the book was the occasion of an unsuccessful prosecution for obscenity in England. (" 'Darling,' she whispered. How lazy, a woman's first words after lovemaking; how husky and bare"). Cackling wickedly, Merrick bought up the lot and shipped it home. Then he mailed 89 copies to editors and columnists all over the U.S. -and ten copies to key editors...
...lively and influential British critic Cyril Connolly was recently commissioned by the London Sunday Times to compile and comment on a list of the hundred key books of modernism in literature. The result (see box) has all the marks of becoming a standard teaching aid in British and U.S. universities. Connolly's hundred also provides a formidable check list against which adult readers may test their knowledge of the literary forces that have helped shape the contemporary mind...
...would bet on the last. This anthology is one long, heavy, awkwardly put-together Curiosity. Admittedly, reading the lyrics of young T.S. Eliot '10--already slightly bored, effete, with allusions to classical figures and scenes--is a "critic's delight," as Culler claims. The careful reader will find parallels with "Prufrock" in "Spleen," written when Eliot...
...father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note, but, like the others, has now given up on himself...