Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. Though his performance as critic is generally excellent, Field contributes mainly an engrossing review of Nabokov's entire career-in Russian and English-and finds the roots of such masterpieces as Lolita and Pale Fire...
Though he is the most celebrated domestic critic of the war in Viet Nam, Senator J. William Fulbright last week chose to attack it only indirectly - by demanding a more substantive role for Congress in the conduct of foreign affairs in general...
...those of a thunderstorm or a subway train. Classically trained, Steig (son of Cartoonist William Steig) hums into as well as plays his amplified flute, mixes shimmering, bluesy cascades of notes with jabbing, rhythmic interjections, sometimes bending tones into piercing dissonances, sometimes dissolving into trills or fluttery tremolos. Jazz Critic Whitney Balliett describes Steig's musical message as "messianic, for it suggests the way out of the gloomy muddle that jazz has fallen into." > Larry Coryell, 24, guitarist in the Gary Burton Quartet. Coryell builds exciting, unpredictable solos with clusters of freshly turned chords, tantalizing silences, sudden vaulting runs...
...Wilde's Salome, Malory's Morte d' Arthur and Aristophanes' Lyslstrata were likely to include elegant versions of whippings and other aberrations; they shocked the Victorian age while also appealing strongly to the lively pornographic and demonic subculture that flourished in London and Paris. One critic called Beardsley the "Fra Angelico of Satanism." A handsome compliment, but slightly exaggerated. He suggested an elegant imp as much as a Satanic friar...
...anyone else." In so doing, his apparent aim is to counter any impression that Itek's heavy dependency on federal contracts might in some degree have been a factor in their decision to undertake a lengthy and costly analysis of a photographic image which no recognized Warren Report critic had alleged to be a valid human figure...