Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political plumping, or the soap-box exhortations fashionable a decade ago. There were elaborate, anything-but-immaculate conceptions which for untutored eyes might just as well have hung upside down. There were shaky, stuttering labors-in-oil by artists known chiefly to their immediate families, friends and critic-sponsors. There were also sober, estimable paintings by artists like Alexander Brook, John Carroll, Walt Kuhn, Raphael Soyer. Sample critics and choices...
...York Timesman Edward Alden Jewell, an imperceptibly left-of-center critic, chose William Thon's sweeping, salty view Under the Brooklyn Bridge. Critic Jewell, 57, has the same rambling sort of authority his paper has; his gentle, liberal, usually safe-&-sane voice is heard all over...
Said newly elected Sir William Beveridge (Liberal), when challenged by a critic for having voted with the Government: "How could any of us do anything else after Eden's speech...
...make a statement on why you did not hale them to court?", Commissioner Moss emphatically replied: "No ma'am!" *Last week the City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This Was a Man, which the Lord Chamberlain banned...
...Brown, who was president of the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1922, was a leading dramatic critic for the New York Post before going into the Navy and is now Associate Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Lt. Brown will deliver a Winthrop Ames Memorial Lecture...