Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favor his renomination cite his position on the war as the main reason. In contrast, Senator McCarthy of Minnesota, whose explicit aim in running is to attack that policy, has so far drummed up scant support. Nor does an avalanche of write-ins appear imminent for Bobby Kennedy, another critic of the war policy, who is not on the ballot and has discouraged any campaigning on his behalf...
...anti-Russian lines, the government's censors closed down the whole production. In recent weeks they have also closed two other plays and kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire, The Silent and the Honkers, that caricatured some Polish public figures, including Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. After listening to a tape recording of his play, a Polish court sentenced Szpotanski to three years in prison for harming state interests...
When Encounter Columnist and Social Critic Goronwy Rees attended Oxford in the 1920s, he was definitely not one of the boys. "I was regarded as eccentric," he recalls, "because I was not homosexual." In the years since, he has been astonished that the widespread practice has hardly ever been mentioned in print. Nor did he himself have anything to say on the subject until the publication of a new biography of Cambridge Biographer Lytton Strachey gave him an opportunity. In a review of the book in the current Encounter, he gives high-level English homosexuality between the wars its first...
Soup Circuit. Though Rafferty has not been an innovative superintendent of education, he has, according to a friendly critic, "been magnificent on the soup circuit and the P.T.A.'s love him to death." He promises to be just as flashy and captivating on the campaign trail for the nomination in the June 4 primary. Democrats are quietly rooting for a Rafferty victory. They believe that with the party's 4-to-3 majority over registered Republicans in the state, Conservative Rafferty would be easier to beat in a general election than Liberal Kuchel. No Democrat of national stature...
With mounting stridency, the British press has criticized the U.S. role in Viet Nam, portraying it as a misguided effort in a hopeless cause. But there has always been a minority of U.S. supporters, and one of them is Daily Mail Columnist Bernard Levin, an acid-tongued critic of everything from theater to world affairs...