Word: criticism
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...Next Voice You Hear,” radio broadcasts were God’s chosen intermediary with mankind. The role of mass media in that film, and others from the period, reflected Hollywood’s growing role in American society in the 1950s, said James Hoberman, senior film critic for the Village Voice newspaper, at a seminar yesterday. Speaking to a small gathering of film aficionados at the Carpenter Center, Hoberman offered a preview of his next book, which will focus on the role of “movies as political events and political events as movies?...
...Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse, a critic of the professors, maintained her stance that they are attacking the wrong group for distortions in U.S. foreign policy...
Eminent literary critic M.H. Abrams ’34 addressed a rapt crowd in Lamont Library yesterday, emphasizing the value of appreciating poetry by reading it out loud. The bespectacled scholar spoke to an overflowing crowd in a lecture entitled “On Reading Poems Aloud” in the library’s Forum Room. “Read the lines aloud so as to savor the enunciation of the sweet sound,” he instructed his audience. “Can you taste the consonants? You should,” he added, after the crowd?...
Villepin, a longtime critic of the American military presence in Iraq, described the war as “a turning point” that eroded the global clout of the U.S. and hurt the cause of democracy...
...Critics tend to be as susceptible to elevated sentiment as real people are. They love a movie that makes them cry, especially for what their politics tells them are noble reasons. Well, I'm a critic, predictably progressive and a pushover for movie sentiment. (An Affair to Remember, wipe me out one more time.) Audiences may laugh at an Adam Sandler movie, but that doesn't make it good. The same applies to a film that cozies up to an audience's political beliefs. You're welcome to cry, but don't feel good about it in the morning...