Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasional editorial for the Post-Dispatch. He joined forces with the elder Pulitzer when, as editor of an opposition paper, he conducted a vigorous editorial campaign to aid Pulitzer's suit against his partner, Charles H. Jones. He went to the Post-Dispatch in 1883, served as dramatic critic, city editor, managing editor, editor of the editorial page...
...forth to heal society. For that job he became managing editor of The Nation. Chairman Medill McCormick of a Senate committee investigating U. S. occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, sent him to those countries to look into condi tions. Thereafter Dr. Gruening became a bitter critic of U. S. policy in Latin America, a champion of all the little nations on whose soil and soul the U. S. had stepped. In 1924 he publicized the presidential candidacy of the venerable Robert La Follette Sr., helped to throw a "Red Scare" into the U. S. electorate. For two years...
...producing too much wheat and cotton could be saved only by AAA's crop reductions. But hardly had Dr. Tugwell last week finished telling his radio audience about the "economy of abundance" when up popped a government-paid economist to deny its existence. According to this latest New Deal critic, the "economy of abundance" is the product of "mental astigmatism" and distorted statistics, incapable of standing examination in the light of facts...
Maugham defends both Maupassant and Chekhov (as well as himself and all other popular writers) against the charge of truckling to editors: "Sometimes a critic will describe a book of short stories as magazine stories and thus in his own mind damn them. That is foolish. No form of art is produced unless there is a demand for it and if newspapers and magazines did not publish short stories they would not be written." All but two of the stories in East and West were published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, whose editor, Ray Long, sometimes cut them...
...literary business, like any other, has its entrepreneurs, and they are not all publishers. Editor Carl Van Doren, like Editor Louis Untermeyer, has made his literary name by purveying other men's wares. Friends call him a constructive critic; carpers, a popularizing salesman of U. S. letters. Not the first nor the best U. S. prose anthology, Modern American Prose is one of the biggest (939 pp.). Few readers will agree that all Editor Van Doren's examples deserve to be included in such a collection, or that every example is truthful, beautiful, alive, but nearly every-one will find...