Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago graduates). Most are professors in divinity schools or English departments at secular universities. Tom Driver, who heads the L. & T. curriculum at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, teaches five courses, among them "Doctrines of Man in Modern Drama," and is a well-known freelance drama and film critic; he has written reviews for the Reporter and the Christian Century...
...respected for having the courage to ignore initial poor reviews (including your own) and recognize the cinematic gem that is Bonnie and Clyde [Dec. 8|. Today's movie audience, exposed to such a larger number of movies than ever before, is more sophisticated than Critic Emeritus Bosley Crowther thinks. No longer do bad guys all wear black hats and act mean-life is not that simple...
...Limit." Standing in the rococo Senate Caucus Room, Minnesota's Eugene Joseph McCarthy, 51, a sardonic intellectual and an outspoken critic of Viet Nam policy, announced that he will enter at least four of next spring's primaries as a Democratic antiwar candidate opposing Lyndon Johnson...
...Yorker ran a respectful appreciation by Guest Critic Penelope Gilliatt, followed nine weeks later with an ecstatic 9,000-word analysis by another guest critic, Pauline Kael. In Chicago, the Tribune's reviewer sided with the naysayers. He called it "stomach churning": the American said it was "unappetizing." But the Daily News acclaimed it as one of the most significant motion pictures of the decade; the Sun-Times said it was "astonishingly beautiful." It seemed as if two different Bonnie and Clydes were slipping into towns simultaneously...
...known reason. Through the use of rather contrived plot coincidences, Author Gainham keeps her selected characters in view at all times, or at least until the SS and finally the Russians take care of them in their own way. Of an earlier book, Appointment in Vienna, a critic wrote that "Miss Gainham knows neither when nor how to stop." True enough. But the steady march of moral disintegration under pressure in her chief characters shows that she knows where tragedy lies...