Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Critic Brebner: Canadians leave home because salaries are higher in the U.S., because "the canny, cautious conservatism which has so often characterized Canadians, rich and poor alike, [makes life in Canada] discouraging." Young people especially seemed to find that "the inertia of their entrenched elders had drained Canadian life of color, zest, adventure, and the stimulation which comes from free-ranging experimentation in ideas...
...return from New York and the impeccable taste of Bruno Walter to the loud vulgarity of the Boston Symphony is an experience that puts a critic's heart into his work. I say this not out of any malice but rather as a reaction to the most poorly conceived and ill performed concert Symphony Hall has heard in several years. Unfortunately, Dr. Koussevitzky's return to the podium marked the disastrous evening...
Mann would not be Mann (or German) if, having written this, he did not take a step back to view himself as critic. "The tendency toward selfcriticism, often to the point of self-disgust and self-execration, is thoroughly German. . . ." As an example of German selfcriticism, Mann recalls: "In conversation, at least, Goethe went so far as to wish for a German Diaspora. 'Like the Jews,' he said, 'the Germans must be transplanted and scattered over the world. ... In order to develop the good that lies in them...
...Critic Winspear, who is director of Chicago's leftish Abraham Lincoln School, got maddest at one of Harvard's suggested reading lists which he said "apparently stopped with the great classics of laissez-faire. From such a list [Adam Smith, Rousseau, Mill et al.] ... no student would ever glean 'dangerous thoughts...
...Critic. In Manhattan, John Mcllroy celebrated 30 years' work underground. His job: erasing mustaches on subway posters...