Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sculptor George Segal, Art Critic Brian O'Doherty, and New York Jewish Museum Board Chairman Mrs. Albert List discuss "Contemporary...
...Critic John Mason Brown, a cabin mate of Mac Bundy's aboard Kirk's flagship the Augusta during the Normandy landings, recalls that even then Mac was hardly the shy type. "On D-plus-one," said Brown, "I was summoned to the admiral's quarters and all the brass were having breakfast, including General Bradley. Mac was there too-the lowly lieutenant. Bradley was explaining some invasion move, and at one point he said, 'And then we go in here.' Mac said-in effect-'No we don't.' And Bradley accepted...
...Fiddler on the Roof, who should rush backstage but the Premier himself. Said Eshkol after toasting the cast: "Nu, nu, it's not exactly Sholom Aleichem, but I have never enjoyed an evening in the theater so much in my life." Israel's most formidable critic, Chaim Gamzu-whose last name is now the idiom for "roast"-naturally complained that the musical "is sunk in cauldrons of schmaltz." So what else did he expect, bubbled Joe Stein, who wrote the Broadway book: "Schmaltz is not exactly a Japanese invention, you know...
Walter F. Kerr, Litt.D., critic, and Playwright Jean Kerr, Litt.D., his wife. The man who reviews most of American drama, and the woman who writes the rest...
...Carlos Lacerda, 51, the handsome, mercurial politician now serving as governor of Guanabara state, which includes Rio. Brazilians know him as the man whose hounding attacks helped drive Dictator Getulio Vargas to suicide in 1954. Lacerda-who started as a Communist, then swung to the right-was the severest critic of Presidents Cafe Filho and Juscelino Kubitschek, played a major role in pushing the erratic Janio Quadros into resigning, and was a key civilian leader in the 1964 revolution that toppled Leftist Joao Goulart...