Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Show-biz-wise, indeedy. Yorty's first show topped Perry Mason, It's About Time and Truth or Consequences. The critics were not altogether kind. Along with a nix from Variety, Sam's show prompted a double-edged encomium from Los Angeles Times TV Critic Hal Humphrey. "Would it be fair to say," asked Humphrey, "that Yorty makes as good a TV host as he does a mayor? Probably...
...language and news in recent years has concerned the condition of the city itself. As billions of dollars are spent on the revitalization of dying downtowns, as crumbling old neighborhoods are bulldozed away, as the past gives way to the present, a hybrid journalist is developing-the urban reporter-critic. Reporting, he keeps citizens abreast of what's going up and coming down, what city planners envision for the future. Criticizing, he serves as a civic conscience-denouncing the banal, calling for conservation of the historic or unique, pointing out that planners who think big sometimes err even bigger...
...Allan Temko, 43, is the hip, peppery critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. He likes to think of himself as a cultural historian with a mass audience. "I have a well-developed jugular instinct when confronted with mediocrity," he says. In the six years he has written for the paper, he has drawn his share of blood. Almost singlehanded, he forced the Catholic Church to revise ultraconventional plans for a new cathedral; he caused the city to change its plans for a bridge spanning south San Francisco Bay. "What a graceful, avant-garde bridge," he says of the finished product...
...Wolf Von Eckardt, 49, a wide-ranging critic for the Washington Post, is a self-appointed protector of Washington monuments past and to come-but he is engagingly unpredictable. He urged the Kennedy cultural center to copy the best features of New York's Lincoln Center. "The camp thing to do is to call Lincoln Center middlebrow or mediocre," he writes, "but I happen to thrill to noble proportions, a festive progression of spaces, and most of all perhaps to the kind of architecture which, like good writing, is so compelling that you don't even notice that...
Yesterday, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, the current city manager who is Cambridge's chief administrative officer, conducted an extended argument with his chief Council critic, Edward A. Crane '35, over how the City's financial affairs should...