Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government, and an outlawed Solidarity leadership has been brilliantly successful at keeping protest alive. So far, Jaruzelski has been performing his high-wire balancing act with great skill, at some cost to Communist orthodoxy: the current trial of members of the secret police for the murder of Government Critic Father Jerzy Popieluszko is unprecedented in any Communist state. Poland's dilemma seems to defy resolution: it is almost as difficult to envision Jaruzelski's calming his turbulent nation as it is to foresee Moscow's letting Poland slip out of the Soviet camp. That is simply inconceivable...
...were excised or rendered inoffensive. These changes now seem fatuous, but they did not accomplish what Menikoff asserts: "A finished and artistically sophisticated novel was reduced to a vulgar and meretricious shadow of itself." Henry James read this supposedly mutilated text and praised "an art brought to a perfection." Critic George Lyman Kittredge went further, calling the work as published "almost as good a story as ever was written...
That theory, put into practice, made James an extraordinarily subtle and supple critic. He could extol writers like Balzac and Dickens, whose narrative methods struck him as awkward but whose stories enchanted him all the same; he could meticulously detect aesthetic flaws in the works of George Eliot and Anthony Trollope and still commend their unique achievements...
...Baker has been confronted by only one critic of his move to the Treasury. After the announcement, he talked on the phone with Mary Bonner Baker, his seven-year-old daughter by his second wife. "Daddy, I don't want you to do this!" said the articulate, self-confident youngster. "You'll be leaving the White House," she protested, "and I won't get to see the President so much...
...debut in San Francisco, as Madame Lidoine in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Price was recognized as a major talent. The following year, Conductor Herbert von Karajan cast her as Aida in Vienna; when she sang the Ethiopian princess at La Scala in 1960, one Italian critic exclaimed: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal Aida." Her Met debut came in 1961, as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore; that performance provoked a prolonged ovation for only the fifth black artist to sing a major role in the house since Marian Anderson broke the color line...