Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Edmund Stearns, critic and essayist. The era was that in which Americans believed that their own civilization could not be lived in and those who had the courage of their convictions became expatriates...
...good news from Leverett is S/Sgt. George Avakian, famous jazz critic, writer, collector, arranger of recording dates, and contributor to this column, has made arrangements to do a series of "Jazzmen" programs every Thursday night at 9 o'clock over the Crimson Network. For the next three weeks, starting this Thursday, S/Sgt. Avakian will discuss the Chicago Jazz Album which he did for Decca three years ago, taking it session by session, and showing the development of the musicians, styles, and numbers involved. Recorded music is entirely different from live music, and with a man like George Avakian running things...
...Critic Trilling approaches this paradox by way of Novelist Forster's literary "manner." "That manner," says Trilling, "is comic; Forster owes much to Fielding, Dickens, Meredith and James. . . . Stendhal believed that gaiety was one of the marks of the healthy intelligence, and we are mistakenly sure that Stendhal was wrong. We suppose that there is necessarily an intellectual 'depth' in the deep tones of the organ; it is possibly the sign of a deprivation-our suspicion of gaiety in art perhaps signifies an inadequate seriousness in ourselves. A generation charmed by the lugubrious-once...
...Critic George Jean Nathan, following his own fetishes, urged that "once a girl strips, she should be revealed not in bare anatomy but in a very sheer thin blue dress with a white lace collar...
...radio's multitude of voices, one of considerable authority was added last week: the plain, human voice of long, lean, earnest Hanson W. Baldwin (TIME, Nov. 9), the New York Times's ace military reporter and critic. Baldwin took to the air for the Blue Network on a one-a-week sustainer (Sun., 3:15-3:30, E.W.T.). He is available to any sponsor who thinks that Baldwin is worth the Blue's asking price...