Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are no neutrals in the Freud wars. Admiration, even downright adulation, on one side; skepticism, even downright disdain, on the other. This is not hyperbole. A psychoanalyst who is currently trying to enshrine Freud in the pantheon of cultural heroes must contend with a relentless critic who devotes his days to exposing Freud as a charlatan. But on one thing the contending parties agree: for good or ill, Sigmund Freud, more than any other explorer of the psyche, has shaped the mind of the 20th century. The very fierceness and persistence of his detractors are a wry tribute...
...everyone agreed, one of the planet's best dinner companions. At once sardonic and curiously boyish, he was both autodidact and polymath--his curiosity and his information equally boundless. To a film critic he might recommend some recondite movie that he had caught but that the latter had carelessly missed. To a filmmaker desperately behind schedule, he might offer to share his state-of-the-art editing suite to speed things up. To a harried studio executive, he might provide an evening of baseball nostalgia, centered on the New York Yankees, beloved since Kubrick's Bronx boyhood. Maybe Warren Beatty...
...attempt to create something more than a movie. Kubrick was known for his attention to good storytelling in a screenplay, but the real impact of his films is not in the tales that they tell but the ideas they present. he has often been criticized as being too clinical in his treatment of troubling subjects, of not taking a moral stand against the problems he portrayed. But that distance Kubrick maintained from his subjects was perhaps his greatest strength. It was the distance of a social critic, a diagnoser of modern ills...
Especially as Hare does not always take kindly to criticism. In 1989, when then New York Times theater critic Frank Rich gave his play The Secret Rapture a bad review, Hare wrote a very public letter blasting the power of the paper. Even now, let's just say he noticed that the Times did not adore The Blue Room...
...visit and prepare for the trip by reading the authors who set their stories there. "When you go to the places that stories are about or that are associated with authors, it adds to your store of memories or images about them," says Leonard S. Marcus, children's-book critic for Parenting magazine...