Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweden, Composer Atterberg is also a musical critic. There, reading the estimates of his symphony, he chose to laugh with Ernest Newman's review headed "Attaboy. " Critic Newman had called the $10,000 "a fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic...
When St. John Ervine, famed London playwright and drama-critic, came last September to Manhattan to write reviews for the New York World, the World asked certain show-guns to express their opinion of the appointment. Most replied in paeans to the critic, hoping thereby to make him flatter their productions. Not so Producer Philip Goodman. He wrote to the World in part as follows...
...have followed St. John Ervine for a long time and know his writing well. He will make a show of himself as a dramatic critic here. Not only will he disgrace himself but he will disgrace the World . . . and his succeeding Alexander Woollcott will be a joke. He is, at times, rather amiable when writing about musical shows, but, on the whole he is a jackass giving imbecilic reviews of most of the plays he attends...
...airing all comment, both adverse and laudatory which may occur from time to time in regard to this painting. No harm can come to great things through the mouthings of little men and there is only benefit when an artificial mask of excellence is torn away by the competent critic...
...sensational denunciation of the Sargent Mural in Widener Library, Walter Pach, noted artist and critic, in his latest work. "Ananias, or the False Artist," has thrust into the limelight a tableau which Harvard undergraduates see daily in their excursions to the University library...