Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY McCARTHY, the novelist and penetrating critic of the grotesque Vietnam War, has recently remarked in the New York Review of Books that whatever intellectuals do with their skills and cleverness, they should never shy away from doing what they can do best--namely, to smell a rat, metaphorically speaking, and to dissect its nature and character, letting the chips fall where they may. To some extent, this is what I should like to do in my comments on the "Intellectual Validity of the Black Experience...
Among the French, joy was unalloyed?except by smugness. "Was it ever in doubt?" murmured Premier Georges Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable...
...Including Law Professor Michael Severn, Critic Lionel Trilling, Philosopher Ernest Nagel, Sociologist Daniel Bell, Nobel Physicist Polykarp Kusch, Economist Eli Ginzberg, Historians William Leuchtenburg and Walter P. Metzger, Political Scientists Alexander Dallin and Alan F. Westin...
Vienna's predicament was summed up last week by a local critic, who said that the opera needs a gifted director "who is tough, courageous, and does not belong to any of the Vienna cliques." In short, the kind of director that the city has been hounding out of office for nearly a century...
Died. Winfield Townley Scott, 58, critic, editor and poet; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Although Scott wrote about other states, he wrote best of familiar, roughhewn private places like Haverhill, Mass., where he was born. In his lyrical, uncluttered style, he celebrated them in poems like "Tidal River...