Word: criticisms
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...conference, and he is largely credited with converting Byrnes to his "patience with firmness" policy. By prodding recalcitrants in his own party and by telling the Administration what it could get through the Senate, he became the real expediter of the bipartisan foreign policy. He has been a sharp critic of the Administration's vacillating China policy, has continually pressed for the formulation of a long-range, overall foreign program...
...almost half a century, African Negro sculpture has been much admired by connoisseurs. British Critic Roger Fry unhesitatingly called it "great sculpture-greater, I believe, than any we have made . . ." Photographs of 40 such primitive carvings, collected by Copenhagen's Carl Kjersmeier and published in book form last week (Wittenborn; $5.50), gave laymen a chance to see what the shouting was about...
...Last week Ransom, now a professor at Ohio's little Kenyon College (and editor of the Kenyon Review), celebrated his 60th birthday. In his honor, the Sewanee Review, the oldest of U.S. literary quarterlies, has devoted its entire forthcoming summer number to an estimate of Ransom as poet, critic and teacher...
Continuing the successful first quarter century of the Club's history, the inter-war period added such familiar names to the roster as Virgil Thomson '22, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, Walter Piston '24, recently named Naumberg Professor of Music whose Third Symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Music Prize this week, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, famed harpsichordist of the duo, Schneider and Kirkpatrick, was a featured performer in the group during his college days...
...nations had joined UNESCO, a body with an unwieldy name and an unwieldier problem: the crisis in world culture. Was UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) the right way to attack the problem? At Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, English Art Critic Herbert Read asked that question. His answer...