Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central thrust of the report of the National Advisory Council on Education of Disadvantaged Children [Dec. 9] is to praise federally sponsored summer school programs and to recommend strongly their continuation. In pur role as constructive critic, the council reported those aspects of the total program comment could lead to constructive change. Naturally, these are the areas where problems exist. Your readers should know that we stated that "dollars thoughtfully expended on summer schools may be the most productive dollars spent by Title...
...TIME'S critic must know that Herbert Marshall's translation (especially his "dud rhymes -'trees-industries,' 'linger-lingo,' 'see-literacy' ") is a successful attempt to re-create the Russian poet's technique. While this type of rhyme is not even considered rhyme in our English tradition, Russians make use of it. And, especially with Yevtushenko and other modern poets, it is such a special feature that it cannot be ignored in the translation of their poems. Rhymes such as "micropore-Metro-pole" and "Perlovke-perlone" are duds directly from Yevgeny himself...
...Theater Critic Theodore Kalem takes his puns more seriously, recalling that James Joyce was an accomplished punster. Kalem used a pun from Finnegans Wake in an Essay on the theater: "As long as playgoers are yung and easily freudened...
Died. Ward Morehouse, 67, drama critic and columnist, whose gently gossipy "Broadway After Dark" appeared for 40 years, first in the New York Sun, then in the World Telegram and Sun, and finally, since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
Most of the hesitation about Moynihan's plan seems to stem from a fear that the new agency would be either too political to be worthwhile or would be too free- wheeling. One critic said that the problem of "who gets which requests answered first" would ruin the office's independence. Another said that "Congress must remain its own watchdog and that beefed-up committee staffs would be much more effective...