Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been taking its own sweet time deciding on the legitimacy of women's studies, most major universities, including every other Ivy League school, have forged ahead in forming undergraduate programs, attracting top-notch scholars, and adding relevant courses to their curricula. Last year. Harvard lost renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter to Princeton, which has already demonstrated a strong committment to the field...
FOLLOWING THE inauspicious debut of wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1791, the music critic of the Berlin Musikalisches Wochenblatt remarked that the opera had "not won the much hoped for and expected acclaim, on account of its inferior text and subject matter." Even so, the magical spectacle and symbolism that makes up what is perhaps Mozart's most popular opera continues to win the hearts of many music-lovers and theater-goers alike. That is, when the opera is performed well, which is definitely not the case at the Lowell House Opera's current rendition...
...weeks away. An average of 1,500 requests for seats are refused daily. Soltner's skill in preparing the mix of French dishes Lutece is known for has won him every major award accorded to chefs in his native France, as well as top ratings from virtually every food critic and restaurant guidebook...
...then the city's most lavishly decorated and expensive restaurant, with a price-fixed lunch at $6.50 and a la carte main courses at $8.25 that evoked gasps from customers. Nor was its success instantaneous. In a review written one month after Lutece opened, Craig Claiborne, then the restaurant critic for the New York Times, allowed that two dishes -- foie gras baked in a brioche loaf and roast veal stuffed with truffled kidneys -- were superb, but, he summarized, "the food at Lutece could not be called great cuisine...
...sought-after wine in the world." At New York City's Sherry-Lehmann Wines, President Michael Aaron says that Petrus is Actor Burgess Meredith's favorite wine, as well as a frequent pick of Herbert A. Allen, a Manhattan investment banker who used to own Columbia Pictures. Vogue Magazine Critic Martin Gersh describes a Petrus taste-testing session as "unquestionably one of the supreme wine experiences of my life." Wine experts praise Petrus' full-bodied, fruity flavor, but no one can adequately explain its new mystique...