Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British are not notably enthralled with Lyndon Johnson. But when iconoclastic Director Joan Littlewood brought Barbara Garson's Mac-Bird to town, the critics threw every pan in the kitchen. After seeing the pseudo-Shakespearean parody about Johnson and the death of President Kennedy, the London Daily Mail's critic growled: "Immeasurably witless rubbish." The London Times sniffed: "It is pointless to get too indignant. The production successfully torpedoes what was already a fragile and leaky craft...
...Louis' last canvases in March, sold almost all of them at prices up to $15,000; Washington's Gallery of Modern Art is staging a retrospective with 15 more. The largest retrospective (see color opposite), made up of 54 canvases assembled by Harvard's teacher-critic Michael Fried, opens at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this week, after having appeared at the Los Angeles County Museum...
Lederer has sometimes found his role as foreign policy critic advantageous. Shortly after writing "A Nation of Sheep" in 1962, he dropped by the White House to visit a Kennedy aide. As Lederer tells the story, the President, carrying galley proofs of the book, emerged from his office to meet the author. The President, Lederer recalls, liked the book "and asked me if I knew what the British had done in Malaya. I said that I did, but that it would take me a few minutes to write it down. He took me to his office...
...members and their projects are: Griselda White, dancing as therapy for psychological and physical rehabilitation; Judith K. Brown, a cross-cultural study of societies in which women dominate subsistence activities; Barbara Gelpi and Mary G. Mason, research on the Victorian critic and essayist Walter Pater; Barbara G. Rosenkrantz '44, a history of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
...Premier's chief rival, George Papandreou, 79, a former Premier of Greece and the head of the powerful Center Union Party, is the father of the enfant terrible of Greek politics. His son Andreas, 48, who sits in the Greek Parliament, is the King's most relentless critic, an unpredictable, highly ambitious leftist who once headed the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Though George Papandreou's party polled an unprecedented 53% of the vote in Greece's 1964 elections, he was forced out as Premier after 17 months when Son Andreas...