Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were hamming it up for TV, Mama Kathy Grant Crosby took Mary Frances, 6, up to the Hyatt Music Theater near San Francisco to make her debut as a bit-player in a musical Peter Pan but alas, Kathy got panned as Peter. The San Francisco Examiner's Critic Jeanne Miller took after poor Mary Frances as well, with the slightly weird complaint that she was "stodgy...
...responsible critic argues that all 50 states can or should have uniform sentences. Cattle rustling, for example, is obviously more antisocial in Texas than in Connecticut. Even so, astonishing inequities also exist within the laws of a single state. In California, a boy who breaks into a car and rifles the glove compartment can get up to 15 years; for stealing the whole car, he gets no more than ten years. In Colorado, dog stealing is punishable by ten years; dog killing, by six months and a $500 fine. In Minnesota, the maximum sentence for "carnal knowledge" of a girl...
...theme of his work, said Lowry, quoting Critic Edmund Wilson, was "the forces in man which cause him to be terrified of himself." The theme of his letters could be the well-grounded fears that man has of other men. They are witty, light, profound and erudite. The tone is that of an infinitely gentle man whose capacity for pity was not-as in the case of most drunks-squandered on himself...
Even liberal intellectuals can be shocked at the frequent failure of the young to take ideas seriously. Writes Critic Leslie Fiedler, 48: "Not only do they reject the Socratic adage that the unexamined life is not worth living, since for them precisely the unexamined life is the only one worth enduring at all. But they also abjure the Freudian one: 'Where id was, ego shall be,' since for them the true rallying cry is, 'Let id prevail over ego, impulse over order'-or 'Freud is a fink...
Under the Fifth Republic, he has become known as De Gaulle's most persistent parliamentary critic. As the runoff campaign opened with televised speeches of the two candidates last week, Mitterrand declared war on some of the general's pet policies. He said that as President, he would sign the nuclear test ban treaty, which "would mean canceling next year's South Pacific hydrogen-bomb test, move to heal the Gaullist-created Common Market breach in Brussels, and send French representatives to the Geneva disarmament talks that De Gaulle has long boycotted...