Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field here, Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution without any sort of women's studies program. Although the committee was empowered to tenure a professor jointly in women's studies and another discipline, it has yet to snag any topflight scholar. Last spring Harvard lost renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter to Princeton, which has demonstrated its commitment to the field. Apparently the committee has become bogged down, holding out for a savior both to fill this single chair and to double as an administrator who will generate an entire women's studies program--an absurdly unrealistic expectation...
...Paritchett is best known for his short stories, though he has been prominent as a writer of biographies, literary criticism and other nonfiction work. In 1978, he ended his 50-year tenure as literary critic for the New Statesman, the English journal...
Epstein's title, Plausible Prejudices, is a shrewd deflation of the potential objection that he is foisting his ideological prejudices on the unsuspecting reader. He makes no claim to the truth. He allows that as a critic he "can only state his belief persuasively," and impose "opinions by main force of eloquence." For this critical duel, he chooses not eternal verity but rather eloquence at forty paces. This is a wise choice, for Epstein wields a pen like the most powerful handgun in the world, and in the course of the book, blows several heads clean off. Listen...
...movie must begin with words: a book, a script, an acknowledgment from a producer that a concept is not a bankable text. David Thomson, a London-born critic based in San Francisco, reverses the procedure with a work of fiction drawn entirely from old films. His sources are such moody classics as Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, Laura, Casablanca and dozens of other favorites from the Late Show of the American psyche...
...since. Judge Grande ruled that the Rhode Island prosecutors failed to mount the sufficiently "diligent" search required before testimony from an absent witness can be used. Rhode Island State Police Detective John F. Reise told the court that he had attempted to locate Isles through New York magazine Theater Critic John Simon, with whom she is said to maintain a close relationship. Simon, Reise testified, reported that Isles "had no intention of returning to testify and that she was out of the country and she would not telephone." Reise said Simon told him that Isles had been intimidated...