Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal box. Just 18, Moguilevsky, whose parents teach piano at the conservatory at Odessa, displayed a dazzling technique deftly tempered with a controlled maturity of approach. He is the youngest pianist to ever win the coveted Queen's crown. "Moguilevsky has everything," raved La Dernière Heure critic Pierre Modaert, "a blessed musical nature . . . great artistic presence." Echoed the Flemish daily De Standaard: "A blessed musical nature...
Splinters in the Dust. Chief holdout is old New York. In a memorable exchange in 1948, Architectural Critic Lewis Mumford accused Park Commissioner Robert Moses of creating playground spaces "that are merely leftovers, bleak asphalt wastes, marks of an absence of human interest and an almost positive distaste for beauty." To parents' demands that sawdust be substituted for cement, Park Commissioner Newbold Morris replied with a pungent comment on the problems of the great big city. "Sawdust gets full of splinters, broken glass, empty cigarette packages and debris. We're experimenting with a rubber compound...
...Rilke, says Critic Hans Egon Hol-thusen, "we see the conquest of an originally Christian soul by an anti-Christian consciousness." In one short poem Rilke presents Christ's imagined prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane...
...Irving Krankheit the mad psychiatrist (author of Masturbation Now!), a mad Buddhist monk, and several other off-white slaverers at whom she throws herself, have as much fun as a barrel of impure-minded monkeys. But the result is not uproarious enough to require comparison to Byron (as one critic has suggested), unless you have something against Byron...
...reviewer has said so. It seems that there is hardly a literary critic on earth today who would risk seeming a prude in print...