Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject he declined to discuss was his own recent work. His last work of any importance was published in 1929. Everyone is waiting for his eighth symphony. He wouldn't talk at all about this; he said, 'I am my sternest critic. I won't discuss work I may discard...
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...concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
Hence, for any plain reader who may have been scared away by Author Brooks's reputation as the nation's most distinguished literary critic, Irving is an excellent place to begin his history. Van Wyck (rhymes with bike) Brooks is no mere dissector of dead tomes. In Irving, as in its two predecessors, the task which he has set himself is nothing less than to recreate the whole intellectual and artistic atmosphere of the period. Few Americans will read it without a thrill of discovery at learning how much more lively, vigorous and original an intellectual life...
...early works the young critic was primarily concerned with defining an American past that would be for U.S. writers what their own ancient cultures were for the writers of older countries: a steady source of inspiration, a practical guide. The task was all the more difficult because it seemed to him that even the best of American writers had fallen so far short of the possibilities of their genius. As he worked on his biographies of Mark Twain and Henry James, finding more & more evidence of the personal tragedies of individual writers, and more & more signs of the faltering...