Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the opening of "The Dream Songs" and the end is a greater awareness of immediate circumstance. The Songs become progressively less like dreams and more like "reality," and one of the results is that the later books are more easily understood. If you think I am shirking my critic's responsibility to make the book clear, let me assure you I am: there is a great deal about this book I cannot follow...
...Faure's reform met more opposition outside the Assembly than in it. One association of professors warned that decentralization of the system and student participation on the councils could lead to anarchy. The costs of creating new universities and implementing new teaching methods worries other groups. A notable critic of the plan is Political Analyst Raymond Aron, who argued in the Figaro that the law could lead to a politicalization of the universities. "This is not renovation," he wrote. "It is ruin...
Died. Marcel Duchamp, 81, France's Grand Dada of art, whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait...
...could turn a war horse into a steeplechaser. Although triumphant in opera, he has been somewhat less successful on the dramatic stage. His incoherent Othello was throttled by reviewers at Stratford-on-Avon. After seeing Zeffirelli's Broadway production of The Lady of the Camellias, TIME's critic called him "a director who needs a director." Even the movie of Romeo and Juliet will not please everybody, since it clearly reflects Zeffirelli's idiosyncratic opinions of Shakespeare. "Mercutio," he insists, "is a self-portrait of Shakespeare himself, and a homosexual...
Hentoff, a jazz authority and wide-ranging social critic, is one of the most visible freelance writers in circulation. In this slight assignment he overcomes his modest talents for fiction with competence, concern and sympathy. But to what worthwhile end? Surely today's "young adults" do not need such pallid dramatizations of their problems when Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles do it so much better...