Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...productions this week and following weeks: Sophocles' Chekhov's Oedipus Rex, Uncle Vanya; a Sheridan's twin The bill Critic. of The Old Vic will also make four hour-long broadcasts, starting...
...casualty: Critic Burton Rascoe, who didn't like the show, and who quit as World-Telegram drama critic when his paper refused to print his stinging first-night review...
...Prosecution. Once again Farrell's satire is "like elephants out for a good romp" (as the late New Republic critic Otis Ferguson aptly described it). The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated...
Because of his pre-eminence as a critic in America, any work of fiction produced by Edmund Wilson claims serious consideration. "Memoirs of Hecate County" forms a sequel to his "I Thought of Daisy," published in 1929. Just as that volume was a chronicle of Wilson's generation in the twenties, a generation epitomized by his Princeton classmate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, bohemian, leftist, self-consciously intellectual, what Gertrude Stein was to term "a last generation," so "Memoirs of Hecate County" is a continuing study of that generation in the thirties and early forties...
...Paris Salon was old stuff, the Left Bank Galerie de Bac was fresh as a daisy. Its show sent critics scrambling for superlatives. The object of their admiration was 40-year-old Gertrude O'Brady from Evanston, Ill. She was the protégée of Critic Anatole Jakovsky (Bref), who led the field by burbling: "O'Brady is the only great painter of the New World." Critic Maximilien Gauthier (Opéra) predicted that O'Brady would become a "great name in the history...