Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to school, she wrote her first story at seven, her 20th and last novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life, at 68. Between the two she cultivated muscular ethics, a sinewy style, the flaccid enmity of the old South. To the1 impact of her novels, a critic testified: "Southern romance is dead. Ellen Glasgow has murdered...
...voices to his furred and feathered folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
...Saturdays and Tuesdays. Thursdays bring How to Torture Your Husband (or Wife). On Wednesdays, in The Unseen Audience, he pokes a sharp-pointed stick at radio-which of all mixed blessings most needs satirizing, and gets it least. Webster, in fact, is possibly radio's most effective critic...
...composer with a cosmopolitan background and a fully developed style when he returned. In the mid-'30s, Russia did not shoot but it did ostracize composers whose music did not keep time to the Marxian metronome. Prokofiev's first Soviet piece, Symphonic Song, was scorned by Russian critics for its "morbid resignation" and its "tendencies of urbanized lyricism." Wrote Soviet critic A. Ostretsov: "We do not dispute Prokofiev's right to reflect the emotional world of 'superfluous' people in the West, with their rottenness and putrefaction . . . but we do not share the . . . humanistic sympathy with...
Even Colonel Robert S. Allen, the onetime Washington columnist who lost an arm in Germany-and the most outspoken critic of present artificial limbs-was mollified last week. Colonel Allen had lunch with six other amputees, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, and Major General Paul R. Hawley of the Veterans' Administration, the man responsible for veterans' artificial limbs. Some time during the two-hour lunch, General Hawley made Allen chairman of a committee of amputees to pass on new prostheses (artificial devices), and told him to pick his own committee...