Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, National Tea Co., sixth largest U.S. retail grocery chain, had squirmed under the critical gaze of one of its new stockholders. The critic: John F. Cuneo, cold-eyed, round-faced owner of The Cuneo Press, Inc., biggest U.S. printers as well as "angel" of Liberty and a string of other magazines...
...should have rejoiced to make him appear a less disagreeable character, but, paradoxically, a Puritan conscience has prevented me. No British critic has succeeded in proving that I have tampered with any historical fact, or falsified either Milton's literary style or his point of view; and I trust that no American critic will, either. To have represented Milton as spouting beautiful poetry and doing beautiful deeds would have been a lie; throughout his life with Marie Powell he did not write a single memorable poem, or, so far as we know, perform a single generous deed. And nobody...
...height of his success, Harris disparaged it by quoting Critic Percy Hammond's dictum that "the theater is the shell game of the arts." But self-disparagement is not his outstanding trait...
Divorced. Carl Van Doren, 59, crop-haired Manhattan literary critic (Mutiny in January, Benjamin Franklin); by his second wife, Jean Wright Gorman Van Doren, 44; after six years of childless marriage; in Reno...
...months Manhattan's tweedy jack-of-all letters, Christopher Morley and Britain's critic-historian (and authority on U.S. matters), Denis Brogan, with a partner apiece, have pitched "stumpers" at each other by short wave. The questions are designed to determine "who knows most about the other's country." The show's aim: to promote Anglo-American understanding with geniality instead of gags, and without benefit of cash awards...