Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder, then, that three years later Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution not to have given any organized support to the growing, interdisciplinary field. It is also no wonder that the Women's Studies committee one year ago could not lure renowned literary critic Elaine Showalter away from an offer at Princeton, which--unlike Harvard--has already demonstrated its commitment to the field...
...year, MOMA visitors and cassette buyers should understand what Critic Manny Farber realized about the Warner's cartoons in 1943, "That ( the good ones are masterpieces, and the bad ones aren't a total loss." It would be fine if films with such titles as Porky in Wackyland (Clampett), Show Biz Bugs (Freleng), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Jones), What's Opera, Doc? (Jones) and Duck Amuck (glorious Jones) were embraced by the canons of academe. But imagining this, one can also hear Daffy grouse, "What a revoltin' development thith ith." Better, perhaps, for the Warner siblings...
...irresistible forces of the campaign," writes William Henry in his account of the lopsided 1984 election. Reagan won 59% of the popular vote not because he outcampaigned Walter Mondale. Instead, says Henry, who covered the election as TIME's Press writer and is now the magazine's drama critic, the winning candidate identified himself with the growing national appetite "for optimism, for prosperity, for the strength of the individual and the stability of the national defense." Mondale's jeremiads about fairness and budget deficits were well aimed, in Henry's view, but the cola- commercial vision of America that Reagan...
...opposing argument was stated by retired Admiral Noel Gaylor, a frequent critic of U.S. arms policy, in testimony last year to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Said the admiral: "The Soviet antisatellite weapon is a busted flush--slow, unreliable, clumsy and easy to countermeasure, capable of only low-altitude attack." His conclusion: "If we both stop testing now, neither side will ever have a serious antisatellite capability." Some other experts add that the U.S. would have more to lose from an ASAT race than the Soviets would, since it is more dependent on satellites to provide intelligence and coordinate military...
DIED. T.E. Kalem, 65, TIME's drama critic since 1961, whose lively wit, humane judgment and gift for aphorism earned him the admiration of two generations of colleagues; of cancer; in New York City...