Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lacouture has proved to be a reluctant critic. True, he was flattered when Senator Fulbright read his New York Review of Books article into the record of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But more often, he displays an almost overcautious sensitivity about his role here. "I don't want to shock or antagonize anyone," he says, pushing his bushy eyebrows together. "I don't agree with everything, but I'm a guest in this country, and not a foreigner here to give lessons...
Said Mr. Taubman, the outgoing drama critic of the New York Times, to Mr. Kauffmann, the incoming drama critic of the New York Times: "Mr. Kauffmann, I'd like you to meet David Merrick-the enemy." Positively, Mr. Taubman? Absolutely...
...question then became: What sort of critic would Kauffmann be? It turned out that Kauffmann was the sort of critic who decided right off that he could not do justice to a review for a morning paper when there was only about an hour between curtain's fall and press's roll. So he began attending preview performances-and even a dress rehearsal or two. That gave Kauffmann time to ruminate for an extra day or so before deadline. It also gave producers and the other daily critics a pain in the neck. The producers claimed that their...
Sure enough, when Kauffmann arrived at the theater with 1,100 other ticket holders, he found a dark marquee and a sign that read TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE CANCELED. Was this an ambush, calculated to embarrass the Times's critic? No, Merrick's press-agent explained: a generator was out of order. That seemed funny: although the marquee was blacked out, the lobby lights were blazing...
...eight, he was playing in Berlin under the sharp eye of Josef Joachim, who soon brought the Wunderkind to Barth. At eleven, he played Mozart's Concerto in A Major with the Berlin Symphony. In 1906, thanks to the influence of a U.S. music critic who had heard him play at Paderewski's Swiss villa, the young pianist was signed for a tour of the U.S. It was a dud. At his debut in Carnegie Hall, the critics dismissed Rubinstein for being, as one put it, "half-baked?not a prodigy, not an adult." Those were the days when...