Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. Nearly 700 letters-anecdotal, flirtatious, argumentative-are more than just the brilliant babble of a compulsive correspondent; they comprise an autobiography of G.B.S.'s prodigious early years as music and drama critic, socialist propagandist and philanderer. A first volume, which ends as fame dawns for the playwright...
...Loeb is considering such action in protest of the failure of Samuel Hirsch, drama critic of the Herald, to review Galileo which is currently playing at the Charles Playhouse...
...worst intruders are the latecomers. Most concert halls today refuse to seat late arrivals until there is a logical break in the music. In Manhattan, as much as 15% of an audience, elbows at the ready, will come clomping down the aisle between movements of a symphony. Complains one critic: "A listener's mood is broken-no, shattered -when he is removed from the tonal world that has just been established. And just because some inconsiderate couple felt like dawdling over their coffee." To teach latecomers a lesson, Stokowski once had his musicians wander idly off-and onstage while...
...first great success, which came with the production of Candida. In those intervening years, he migrated to London to join his mother (who gave music lessons to support him and his sisters), wrote novels that earned him almost nothing, and finally became an established music and drama critic...
...Levinson implies, Frankfurter is not subject to either of these criticisms of Holmes. Frankfurter's social concern and activity was one of his most salient qualities. And he did not share Justice Holmes's skepticism. Indeed, he had a passionate, "almost childlike," belief in democracy. But, while this belief may be consistent with a belief in judicial restraint, it is not consistent with the realities of life. What Professor How calls Frankfurter's "innocent misjudgment" that "his intensities were matched in most other human beings" might be seen by a less sympathetic critic as blatant unrealism--more appropriate to someone...