Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This modest if rhetorical utterance is characteristic of florid, balding, loquacious Stark Young, who has been a discerning critic of art and the theater (in the New Republic and elsewhere) for some 20 years. Stark Young is known also as a best-selling novelist (So Red The Rose), a poet, a playwright, a translator of plays and a lecturer. Last week he made a firm bid to be known as a painter, gave his first exhibition at Manhattan's Friends of Greece...
England's famed critic-novelist Rebecca West, whose historical tone poem of the Balkans, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, has been called "a passionate analysis of the great crisis of contemporary man," has a sharp tongue in a fearsomely feminine head. Last week, in The Atlantic Monthly, she turned her critical attention to Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover's The Problems of Lasting Peace, written in collaboration with Elder Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Never noted as a motherly sort, Critic West sailed in with claws open, left Messrs. Hoover and Gibson considerably tattered. Critic West wrote...
Seated for a year in the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (vacant since 1941) was Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Historian (Ode to the Confederate Dead) Allen John Orley Tate. His duties: the care and feeding of the poetry collection...
...connoisseurs of piano music would place Pianist Horowitz with the top-rank interpretive artists such as Artur Schnabel, Artur Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...
...tremendous, to put it mildly. Within a month after publication, the successive printings of the book have topped one million copies, and "One World" at present heads all lists of non-fiction, surely a record to cause all other publishers to glower greenly at the Publishers S. As one critic put it, the vogue of the book lies in the fact that Willkie decided to write it himself, instead of employing a "ghost" writer. Mr. Willkie writes easily; he has a journalist's eye for the significant details of a situation, the image that crystallizes and reinforces impression and opinion...