Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading poetry critic Helen H. Vendler has accepted a long-standing tenure offer after dividing her time between Harvard and Boston University (BU) for four years, English department officials said yesterday...
...most distinguished critic of English poetry alive," said Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred...
Dole's selection as majority leader had a domino effect on key committee chairmanships. Oregon's Bob Packwood, a frequent Reagan critic, will succeed Dole as head of the Finance Committee, wielding power over the Administration's tax-reform plan when and if it is sent to Capitol Hill. "I sort of like the tax code the way it is," Packwood told the Washington Post last week...
...European civilization simply makes no sense without its spiritual spine, the Bible. So say British Critic Bruce Bernard and Art Historian Sir Lawrence Gowing in The Bible and Its Painters (Macmillan; 300 pages; $24.95), an opinionated and amply illustrated survey of biblical themes in more than 200 paintings produced over six centuries. Rembrandt is, in Gowing's words, "the hero of this book" because he surpassed all artists in getting to the heart of the biblical vision: his works in this volume reach from the famous portrayal of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac to a shadowy ascension of Jesus...
Every move Mikhail Baryshnikov makes, onstage and off, seems to have been recorded and analyzed. In fact, more than half his professional life was lived in a shadow-the years before 1974, when he came to the U.S. Now, thanks to Theater Critic and Photographer Nina Alovert, who left the Soviet Union three years later, the dancer's Soviet career has been recaptured in Baryshnikov in Russia (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 212 pages...