Word: criticism
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...LATE LITERARY critic Lionel Trilling spoke these words during a series of lectures he delivered at Harvard in the spring of 1970. And though the lectures happened to deal with centuries-old cultural developments, this process of moral revision is forever with us. One wonders whether, someday, similar words will not be said about Woody Allen's brilliant new movie Hannah and Her Sisters...
Javier and Pacificador were longtime rivals. Javier, 43, a lawyer who studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and once served as provincial governor, had been an outspoken critic of President Marcos. Pacificador, 55, is an attorney who reportedly won Marcos' loyalty by purging references to bought votes from the record of the 1971 Constitutional Convention. He won his seat in the National Assembly by beating Javier in one of the most controversial campaigns of the 1984 election. On the eve of the voting, seven Javier supporters were killed during a shoot-out with Pacificador and his followers...
Martin Luther King Jr., who died before his dream could be realized, has been refashioned by the Reaganites as the leading critic of affirmative action. After all, wasn't he attacking quotas when he spoke of a colorblind society...
...been criticized in recent years, however, as a mouthpiece rather than a critic of the Soviet establishment...
...avert your eyes yet. Mulvoy next drops his guise as sports media mastermind, revealing himself as none other than America's premiere critic of contemporary art: "what I did give you is tasteful pictures of the highest quality by one of the greatest photographers in the country." No doubt, it takes a true cultural luminary to appreciate the aesthetics--to see the symbolism, perhaps? Oh, I'm sorry Mark, we wouldn't want to read too much of our sexist society into an innocuous swimsuit-unclad photomontage...