Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern dance viewer is a scholar. Each knows what is and isnot dance even if he has seen little or no purely modern dance. Cunningham, once the depth of the is not, suddenly rises to be the big is. Perhaps his success may be connected with the vociferous dance critic's unending need to exclaim. More probably, the times have simply caught up with Cunningham...
...Cubicar looks, says the London Daily Sketch, "like a motorized greenhouse without the tomatoes" [May 10]. The Sketch critic is blind. The two dolls in the front seat of the Cubicar are as pretty a pair of tomatoes as I've seen displayed in quite a spell...
...part, Kuchel is mending fences from the Mexican border to the Oregon line, defending his past failure to support fellow Republicans Reagan, Nixon and George Murphy, and hammering so hard for law and order that, as one critic put it, "he makes Barry Goldwater sound like one of the charter members of the A.D.A." No match for Rafferty on the stump, the Senator so far has avoided a direct confrontation. His tactics appear to be paying off. Kuchel has recovered from an early slump in the polls, and by last week seemed headed for another victory in June...
...Mastersounds. His playing, though bristling with authority, is unorthodox: he plucks the strings with his thumb in stead of his fingers or a plectrum, giving a rounded, intense tone, and he phrases in short, jabbing bursts instead of the looping legatos of most post-Christian guitarists. Enter Jazz Critic Ralph Gleason...
Heretofore, Pritchett's eminence has derived from his travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...