Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together in 1848, belongs the credit generally given to the French impressionists of being the first to paint finished landscapes in the open air. The results were revolutionary. When the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt's sun-drenched canvas, Strayed Sheep, was displayed in Paris in 1855, French Critic Theophile Gautier wrote: "In the whole salon, there is perhaps no painting that disturbs one's vision as much as this one." Carrying Corn, a harvest scene of almost hallucinatory brightness, was painted out of doors by another Pre-Raphaelite, Ford Madox Brown, in 1854, and the diary...
...from Times Book Critic Eliot Fremont-Smith, who found O touched with "tragic grandeur" and employing "erotic materials" to stimulate the reader to a "total, authentic literary experience...
Many people disapprove of what Los Angeles Times Music Critic Martin Bernheimer calls the "climate of adulation" in which Mehta moves. But misguided as all the glamorization may be, it is still a tribute to the galvanizing impact of Mehta's performances...
...musical line, a Toscanini-like stickler for both fine-mesh detail and overall coherence. Imperious and intensely concentrated, he spurs an orchestra on with a clean, incisive beat, often achieving a surging pulse and crackling inner tension. He excels with the original texts of operas, giving them what one critic calls an "electric-shock treatment...
...most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly Commentary, fits a familiar pattern. Brainy son of Jewish European immigrants, his ambition fired by memories of a boyhood spent in the Brooklyn slums, he worked his way up from smartest kid in the class to a position of influence and prestige in New York intellectual circles...