Word: criticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said G.M., when the paper called. The company rolled out a 1967 Chevy with shoulder harnesses, head braces, disc brakes, emergency flasher switch, freeway lane-changer signal, padded instrument panel and energy-absorbing steering column. It remained to be seen whether all that would satisfy the guest speaker: Auto Critic (Unsafe at Any Speed) Ralph Nader...
...thing I want to do is break the power of the New York Times drama critic," said the man who was appointed the Times drama critic last week. And that was why Dance Critic Clive Barnes, 39, got the job. Ever since the New York Herald Tribune folded last summer, the Times has fretted about the power of its critic to make or break shows. One answer, believes Managing Editor Clifton Daniel, might be to have two theater critics. So, starting next fall, incumbent Critic Walter Kerr, 53, will write a more leisurely Sunday column. Barnes will take over daily...
...were rather worried about expressing too firm an opinion of a show. Clive Barnes, on the other hand, is a superenthusiastic Englishman who turns out sprawling, effusive copy with heavy injections of his own personality. He has expanded his jurisdiction beyond that of any previous dance critic by reviewing dance halls and discothèques, films and the opening of the Mets. Baseball players, he concluded, are no match, in grace and strength, for male ballet dancers...
Barnes finally said yes, partly because he will still be allowed to review the dance-a formidable double assignment for a critic of even Barnes's energy. But he is fast boning up on the U.S. theater and has become reasonably enthusiastic about his new job. "This season has been so bad," he says, "that it can only get better...
What gives is an author who knows that ideas make the best parlor games. Earth's books, whatever their shortcomings, cry out not merely to be read but to be played with. His friend, Novelist and Critic Leslie Fiedler, enthusiastically calls Earth "an existentialist comedian." The description is apt, for Earth is essentially a humorist who believes that it is absurdly comical to take anything too seriously, including himself. His books bubble with back-alley sexual humor that derides the solemnity of love. Earth's characters are never cast as heroes: there is something slightly ludicrous about them...