Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winnipeg Ballet came home in triumph last week from its first tour of the cow country and wheatlands to the West. Receipts for the swirl through Regina, Saskatoon and Edmonton did not quite meet expenses, but there were satisfying compensations. Wrote the Regina Leader-Post's critic: "Ballet is in Regina to stay...
...worst-of the most widely published pictures recently produced in the U.S. Portrait of America reproduced four Satevepost and two New Yorker covers, a spate of paintings for ads, and a few art-gallery pictures. It led off with a four-page primer on U.S. art history by Book Critic Bernard DeVoto who, being a literary man, thinks of art as illustration...
...York Herald Tribune's caustic composer-critic Virgil Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
...this armed intervention, as many a critic of Chiang, as the Chinese Communists and many a U.S. leftist would surely label it? The policymakers' answer on this point is a strong no; the U.S. does not intend to intervene in China's internal affairs. But the U.S. cannot permit China's civil strife to interfere with the discharge of solemn U.S. obligations to the Chinese Government-chief among them the removal of the Japanese from China...
After ten months as an emergency cinema critic for the New Yorker, waspy, wispy Wolcott Gibbs explained to readers of the Saturday Review of Literature why he will never again try to review movies...