Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what no one else had done about the New York World's Fair. It had been previewed, opened, featured, highlighted and was even beginning to produce its own cliches. But there had been no intensive critique of it in the sense that, say, a theater critic reviews a play. McPhee and Researcher Nancy Gay Faber went to and from Flushing Meadow by car, subway, train and hydrofoil, walked and rode through the grounds, stood in the longest lines, went to literally every pavilion, park and exhibit. One day McPhee took two of his daughters, aged three and five...
...British critic Sir Kenneth Clark wrote once that he understood a certain private collection of Fragonard's rococo oils when he looked at the same owner's collection of butterflies. The collector's eye had plainly drawn strength from the kinship of fragrant, fluttery forms in art and nature. To pin down the taste of California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, 57, the most discriminating art collector on the West Coast (see color pages), is a similar exercise in analogy. But Simon's other collection is companies...
...dancers who interpreted the New York premiere of Hovhaness' Meditations of Orpheus danced nimbly and well, but the choreography failed to suggest much beyond a battle over a nightgown. The gown was worn by Eurydice (Dancer Cora Cahan) over flesh-colored tights and, as New York Daily News Critic Douglas Watt observed, it seemed Orpheus wanted it. (P.S.: He got it.) Excerpts from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G were deformed by the Philharmonic's raucous and jarring performance...
...forests for the convenience of hunters, offer phones with gentle chimes for those who cannot stand the regular bells. Even former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, a voluble critic of many other institutions, told a Senate committee last year: "Having just returned from Europe, I would say hooray for the phone service you get here...
...this brand of authenticity and moral paradox on the cold war frontier that led at least one critic to be lieve that the author must be a spy himself. Cornwell did spend three years in the Foreign Office. "But not espionage -I've never done it." He learned his spymastery from published reports: "I was astonished at how much had been said. Intelligence seems to be an iceberg of which 80% is above water...