Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Louis was only 49 when he died of lung cancer in 1962, and his early death made him the Thomas Chatterton of formalism, the "marvelous boy," dying just as his genius was ready to blossom. He owes his reputation to the critic Clement Greenberg, who was also his coach. It is not really true, as has often been said, that Greenberg told Louis what to paint, though he probably had more influence over this lonely, gifted and insecure man than any American critic has had over any other artist. Nevertheless, Louis' instinct for light as the primal theme of painting...
...rolled around, new voices raised similar cautions. Said Robert Reich, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government: "In America, industry has become the plaything of finance." Banker Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Manhattan investment firm of Lazard Freres and a frequent critic of Wall Street's excesses, goes further. Says he: "Now the whole world is a casino. Las Vegas, at least, closes at 5 a.m. This thing does...
...positive review, on the other hand, challenges both critic and reader. The reviewer wants to relay the book's "not-to-be-missed" quality, without quoting endlessly. If he succeeds, the reader will struggle to find time for the book between work, meetings, socializing...or lectures, studying, and midterms...
...concern for the truth is no longer the central concern of the justice system," a critic of criminal law told an audience of about 25 students at the Law School last night...
...Theatre served as an oasis and a seedbed for ideas," Nora Sayre, a journalist and drama critic, told the audience. "It was a home for writers and performers when artists were considered oddities...