Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poet and dramatist, student of French culture, Jones is also a critic of note, literary editor of the Transcript during the last two years of its life and frequent contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature. He is now finishing the job of editing the letters of William Makepeace Thackcray, which Gordon was forced to abandon for the Navy last December. Professor Jones hopes to have the edited letters ready by the end of the year, believing they will reval a new Thackeray--the Dr. Johnson of the 19th Century...
...warm, human, robust critic of life as well as literature, H. M. Jones is an inspiring personage. Perhaps some measure of the tolerant breadth and intellectual depth of the man may be indicated by his words of 1939 before the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee...
Golenpaul's eye first fastened on Clifton Fadiman. They met on the bus. "I liked his voice," Golenpaul recalls. "He had culture, standing as a critic, was quick on his feet, and the show needed a little sadism anyway...
Jane Avril was described by English Critic Arthur Symons as having "the beauty of a fallen angel; she was exotic and excitable. ..." Lautrec's biographer Gerstle Mack described her differently: "She never allowed herself to lapse into vulgarity. ... Her friends were generally writers or artists, cultivated men in whose company she felt at ease." Lautrec immortalized Avril in numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with...
Says Georgia O'Keeffe of her flower paintings: "I am attempting to express what I saw in a flower which apparently others failed to see." For years people have been seeing all kinds pf things in O'Keeffe's flowers. Critic Lewis Mumford has seen a celebration of "almost every phase of the erotic experience." Said he: "Socrates learned about love from the priestess Diotima; but if he were alive today, he would probably go to O'Keeffe." Painter Oscar Bluemner has written: ". . . O'Keeffe steps forth as [an] . . . imaginative biologist of all creation . . . extending...