Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montgomery distressed his sense of proportion. He did not need to shout, and as General of the Army or President he betrayed not the slightest trace of pretension or vainglory. There was, to be sure, a terrible temper, but as Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a former subordinate and sometime critic of Eisenhower, said last week, "He had only to smile at you, and there was nothing you would not do for him." Even as a five-star general, Ike could extend his hand to an enlisted man and say: "My name's Eisenhower." He was also, perhaps, the only President...
...pact with Hitler. Eastman's books, Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1939) and Marxism: Is It Science? (1940) are still regarded as among the most damning analyses of Communism. He also proved himself a considerable poet and turned out an autobiography, about which one critic wrote: "It has the egalitarian earnestness of a Tom Paine, the lighthearted sexual adventures of a Casanova, the self-preoccupation of a Cellini...
...Shadow. Many of the gallerygoers who have seen the show in the past month, including many of the critics, feel as if they had never really seen a Frankenthaler before. In Manhattan's close and somewhat clubby artistic community, nearly everybody knows Helen Frankenthaler as a charmer, a hostess and a presence. Back in the early 1950s, she was the brash, aggressive young girl friend of Clement Greenberg, the eloquent critic and self-appointed evangelist who has done the most to recognize and extol the genius of Jackson Pollock. For the past eleven years, she has been the wife...
Died. John Mason Brown, 68, journalist, drama critic and lecturer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of a Louisville, Ky., lawyer, Brown was labeled the "Confederate Aristotle" for his self-deprecating wit and tongue-in-cheek pedantry. He was drama critic for the New York Evening Post from 1929 until 1941; after that, his Saturday Review column, "Seeing Things," became a forum for broad commentary. But the theater was always his passion, and in 1963 he quit the Pulitzer jury when the prize was not awarded to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...really loved women, he'd treat them with more respect." But then, how can you offer respect when you don't have much, even for yourself? "Perhaps once you stop being hungry, you don't produce such good stuff," says Newley the film critic. "I'm beginning to lose it. My work-all of it -is a hobby...