Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point. The M.L.A. editions are crammed with niggling notes on whether Herman Melville used the spelling "bananas" or "banannas" and whether Howells wrote "wrapt" or "wrapped." In an earlier review of the M.L.A. edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University), Cultural Critic Lewis Mumford found the text so cut up by the "barbed wire" of notations and arcane diacritical symbols that it was virtually unreadable...
...museums. Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look and is, in effect, a massive box with a portico of sticklike, white concrete columns tacked on to suggest the Parthenon-or a Southern plantation mansion. "The result is Caricature Classicism," wrote the New York Times critic, Ada Louise Huxtable, "or Running Scared Modern...
Refuting a Critic. Much to Detroit's surprise, General Motors carried its defense of competition to the point of providing a peek at some of its costing policies, normally a matter of utmost secrecy. The company estimated that its labor costs average about $1,000 per car, or 32% of each sales dollar. It put tooling costs at $134 per car, for styling and other changes. The figures were aimed at refuting charges by Auto Critic Ralph Nader, who in July asserted that "the direct and indirect labor in a medium-priced car doesn't exceed...
...A.I.A. plan was Jacob D. Fuchsberg, vice chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Automobile Law. Fuchsberg. who also happens to have a prosperous private practice in auto-damage cases, charged that the A.I.A. members merely wanted "to get the Government off their backs." Another vocal critic of the A.I.A. recommendation was Vestal Lemmon, president of the rival National Association of Independent Insurers, whose 480 affiliates (including State Farm Mutual and Allstate, the two biggest auto insurers) write more than half of U.S. auto-insurance policies. Lemmon raised serious doubts as to whether the A.I.A. plan would...
...long ago, Critic-at-Large Marya Mannes justly observed that in a world taken over by size 10 miniskirts and baby body stockings there is little left to clothe the "well-kept figure of an adult woman still loved by a man." This becoming feminine pique over fit-and much other comment on the trying 60s-has been incorporated into a slender futurist fantasy. The publisher, somewhat optimistically, asserts that it is a novel. Alas, the lady has tried to cram a statuesque symposium on life, death and manners into a minisheath of story...