Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, also, officialdom squabbled and squirmed over charges that residents of the stricken area had been given little or no warning of Betsy's approach. The most authoritative critic was disputatious Dr. Edward Teller, of H-bomb fame, who was in the city for a speaking engagement five days after the hurricane struck; he noted that a well-run warning and evacuation system in Alaska had given residents ample notice of a tidal wave in the wake of last year's devastating earthquake. "Six people died," said Teller, "but the figure could have been hundreds." In fact...
...dwarfed by the giant buildings that will grow around it." But for many viewers, the closer they approach, the more questions get raised. The solid concrete and marble exteriors of the two office structures seem as forbidding as a medieval keep and have reminded more than one critic of corn silos...
...times. Such is Starting Out in the the thirties, a chatty tour of the Depression in New York and the generation of radical writers-John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Clifford Odets, James T. Farrell, Robert Cantwell-who, like Author Kazin, were starting out in the Thirties. An essayist, critic and anthologist (F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Man and His Work; The Portable William Blake), Kazin was born in a Brooklyn slum, the son of an immigrant Polish Jew. He got his first job, as a part-time book reviewer for the New Republic, in the summer of 1934 -"that bottom summer when...
...into the countryside-the sensation that Nature is being suffocated beneath spans of concrete. "In many parts of the country the building of a highway has about the same results upon vegetation and human structures as the passage of a tornado or the blast of an atom bomb," protests Critic Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost save-our-trees esthetes. In San Francisco, Folk Singer Malvina Reynolds became so angry with the California Highway Department that she wrote a song...
...furs walking a lion on a leash, did Lenten penance by scrubbing the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent, and attended a concert in Symphony Hall wearing a headband emblazoned: "Oh you Red Sox." It is also true that she ardently supported the Boston Symphony, launched Critic Bernard Berenson on his career, and founded an art museum that contains some of the world's finest paintings. She spent a lifetime inventing and exploiting her own legend, and has remained largely a legend since her death in 1924. Now Louise Hall Tharp, whose last book...