Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, some critics contend, the artist's license to show and do all creates an audience of voyeurs passively feeding on their fantasies. In the visual arts, as in literature, "the cult of utterness," in one critic's phrase, tends to devalue and depersonalize human sexuality. In an essay in the book Language and Silence, an eloquent condemnation of pornography, Literary Critic George Steiner objected: "Sexual relations are, or should be, one of the citadels of privacy, the nightplace where we must be allowed to gather the splintered, harried elements of our consciousness to some kind of inviolate order...
Knowles is also an outspoken critic of some present medical practices, and it is this quality that led to his rejection. At times he has criticized doctors' fees as excessive, and his concern for the poor has led him to suggest the need for all-inclusive health insurance. He preaches preventive medicine...
Jacques Duhamel, 44, Agriculture Minister, was an outspoken critic of the Gaullist regime. Centrist Duhamel campaigned energetically against De Gaulle in the 1968 general election, decrying the general's policies regarding NATO and the Middle East and his "ten years of personal power and arrogance." During this spring's presidential campaign, he hesitated between Pompidou and Alain Poher, picked the winning side when Pompidou promised to abolish the propaganda-prone Ministry of Information (a promise that Pompidou kept last week). Handsome and brainy, Duhamel is forthrightly Europe-minded and pro-U.S.-and almost certainly headed for frequent...
...doctrine that lifted directors to their new eminence first appeared in the pages of the resolutely avant-garde French magazine Cahiers du Cinema. In January 1954, Truffaut, then a critic and aspiring film maker, wrote a prophetic article entitled "Politique des Auteurs" ("The Mark of the Author"). Its purpose: to show that celluloid could be just as prestigious as paper. Movies were not group art, he argued. The scenario, camera work and acting were all under the unifying force of the director -the author of a body of film work...
...Talese implies that Daniel's surface is Daniel. Reston's Horatio Alger idealism and Establishment pieties Talese wryly ascribes to a successful immigrant's fervor for his new-found land. In assessing the American scene, he charges, rather unfairly, Reston is a "better convert than a critic...