Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Hargis Anderson, 46, president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, critic of Hearst's Journal-American; of meningitis following a sinus operation; in Manhattan...
With these and other explosions, Art Critic Edward Alden Jewell last week blew up in the New York Times. He was writing about a proposed temporary Victory Arch for Manhattan's Times Square, to be erected when the boys come marching home. The scheme, sponsored by the Broadway Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory. . . . At the apex of the main motif will be placed the figures of Peace and Justice. The finger of Peace will point in the direction of Europe and Asia. Justice...
...Once Critic Jewell let go, he found it hard to control himself. Said he: "Since the 'victory arch' is now before us on this page, I am spared the anguish of having to describe it. . . . The locale selected is wrong for a victory arch . . . unless . . . we let the people who do the Macy Thanksgiving Parade, or the Soya Bean Association, or the Tight Rope Artists Union have a chance to compete. . . . In my opinion this design . . . is atrocious in every respect. It is flimsy, it is ugly, it is inept...
...made money during the '20s, quietly liquidated his investments before the 1929 crash. He went on serving as unofficial adviser to Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Under Franklin Roosevelt he has been a mother lode of fact and theory to the Administration-as well as its severest friendly critic...
When Rockwell went to Washington with his sketches, "no one could use them." He promptly "took them back to my beloved Post"-and the Government, thinking it over, has printed, to date, some four million copies. Rockwell has had a good many letters about them. Most of the adverse criticism has pointed out that one particular religion (or another-always that particular critic's) was not strongly enough plugged. Some critics have objected that the sitters are not aristocratic enough; one letter flatly comments on the "common-looking" individuals portrayed. Rockwell himself says: "I put everything I had into...