Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Catholic layman in the U.S., "worn only by men and women whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the Church and enriched the heritage of humanity"; Author John Updike, 32, Critic Aileen Ward, 40, and Poet John Crowe Ransom, 75, each presented with a $1,000 National Book Award for last year's The Centaur, John Keats: The Making of a Poet and Selected Poems, respectively; Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, 86, now the Senator with the longest record of service in the entire history of the Senate, having passed the longevity total...
This may be, as one critic triumphantly observed, linguistically impossible, but it approximates the author's viewpoint. Despite some hilarious episodes, The Wapsot Scandal is not, in the end, a comic novel...
Leaving everyone uninvolved, The Silence degenerates into a game, a sophisticated version of hide-and-go-seek. Because the experience is the opposite of. aesthetic, Bergman's talents seem much better after leaving the theatre. Once settled in his favorite coffee shop, the new critic will have fun exploring the film's cornucopian symbolism. Two sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindbloom), and Anna's little boy, Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), interrupt their railroad trip in a strange country where a strange language is spoken, because of Ester's strange coughing fits. They rent a room in a hotel with...
...such linguistic collisions did not deter a genteel, bejeweled audience from giving Mahagonny a 30-minute ovation, despite the opera's fiercely stated argument that all wealth is wicked. "Rich Italians now consider it very smart and refined to like Brecht and Weill," one critic humphed, and another suggested that all the fat cats clapped only to confuse spies from the tax collector's office. But the curtain calls had nothing to do with socialist realism. Instead, they were a tribute to Gloria Davy and Gloria Lane, two American singers who made Mahagonny a triumph in any tongue...
Fauves (or wild beasts, from a critic's derisive quip). The philosophy of painting that both groups followed was best summed up by an 1890 dictum of Theoretician and Painter Maurice Denis: "A picture, before being a horse, a nude, or some kind of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain order." Although neither the Nabis nor the Fauves entirely abandoned the impressionist lessons of analyzing the fleeting scans of colored light rebounding from landscape, they flattened their tableaux and added vigorous, if vague and personal, symbolism to their work. In effect, they were...