Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle," asked President Kennedy in 1963, "or will De Gaulle get rid of you?" The question, addressed to young French Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, was meant only partly as a joke. Even then, Servan-Schreiber was the most eloquent, most influential-and most consistent-critic that le vieux Charles had to endure. As a liberal who believed in the West, he abhorred De Gaulle's rejection of the U.S. and Britain as partners in the development of Europe. As publisher of the weekly newsmagazine L'Express, he has constantly attacked Gaullist protectionism as symbolic...
Because as Lowell says, "his dogmatism is completely unspoiled by the hedging equanimity that weakens the style and temperment of most serious writers," he became the most powerful American critic since Eliot. It is unlikely that anything better on Frost will ever be written than his "To the Laodiceans"--an exuberant reading of 35 of the best, but once unrecognized poems--most of them from Frost's dark side which he virtually discovered. And his review of Lowell's Lord Weary Castle reads, as one of the contributors says, like Coleridge on Wordsworth...
Henry Pleasants, music critic and author of The Agony of Modern Music, will speak on and answer questions about "The State of Music" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland J.C.R...
...party last week, all the old gang puffed up four flights to the East Side editorial walkup. Dressing as distinctively as they write, Columnist Jimmy Breslin appeared with open collar and untied tie, Writer Tom Wolfe in a white suit over a blue paisley shirt, Pop Critic Dick Goldstein with a Beatles haircut, boots and an "Indo-Russian embroidered jacket." They were joined by two new staffers, Lady-Writ-er-About-Town Gloria Steinem and Mafia Watcher Peter Maas. Harold Clurman will review plays for the revived magazine, Judith Crist, movies. George Hirsch, who came from TIME-LIFE International...
Maurois was a lover, not a critic, of mankind. His art paid a price for it. His romantic world was always tidier than its sloppy model. Yet his elegant narrowness brought him intimacy with an audience of millions seeking in literature the order that life denies. The irony would not have escaped...