Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fugs, who experiment in theatre as well as song, received guarded praise in an article by drama critic Elizabeth Hardwick in the Dec. 13 New York Review of Books...
...January 23, Michael Traugot, an SDS cochairman, wrote Neustadt to ask for an open debate between Goldberg, the next Associate, and "a serious critic of our government's Vietnam policy." Officials of the Institute, of course, continued to believe that a debate--with lengthy statements and rebuttals by Goldberg--would undermine the whole Honorary Associate program...
...critic of his times, Hogarth was the visual counterpart to his great verbal contemporaries-Swift, Pope and Defoe. "The proper study of mankind is man," wrote Pope; Hogarth agreed in paint. Satire was his sword-and just how sharp it was can be seen in the current exhibition of 110 paintings, prints and drawings at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the biggest public showing of Hogarth in U.S. history...
...situation has also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned." Small wonder. Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble...
Hutchins resigned in 1950, much to the relief of many of his critics who doubted that students were really "being educated." But his departure was also regretted by many who enjoyed the spirit of independence which he had brought to the College. A humorous commentary on the controversy over Hutchins' policies is provided in a satire of the University of Chicago. The Dollar Diploma, written by Georg Mann in 1960. One faculty critic had this to say on what Mann termed Individualized Education...