Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stocky, rugged Justice Rutledge, 48, had more than geography to recommend him. Least known nationally of all Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees, he is famed among legal scholars. He was a stern critic of the old Supreme Court for declaring child labor laws unconstitutional, is a stanch believer in liberal interpretation of the Constitution's "general welfare" clause. Yet his views are far from radical: his appointment was first suggested by Iowa's conservative Senator Guy M. Gillette...
When Djuna Barnes showed her first oil painting, Portrait of Alice, at Peggy Guggenheim's Manhattan gallery last week, many critics were surprised to find that the woman who wrote Nightwood (1937) could paint with similar distinction. In Nightwood no less magisterial and exacting a critic than T. S, Eliot found "the great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy...
Investigation into renewed "muggings" on Manhattan's streets disclosed that Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had been assaulted at 2 a.m. on Fifth Avenue. Two strangers jumped him from behind, knocked him down, tried to throw him through a plate glass window, went off without robbing him. He got a sore rib, a thoroughly shredded overcoat...
...bitter and unreasonable end, especially if they are lost causes. Haggin, for instance, in his zeal for the cause of Toscanini, wrote recently in the "Nation" that he found Koussevitsky's Beethoven and Brahms "impossible to listen to." For the most part, he is a very acute critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack, but now that the aging maestro has very obviously lost his spark, Haggin is daily...
...prose parody, The Three Limperary Cripples, written in the manner of James Joyce, is less malicious, more successful. Wrote Justice Holmes (see .p. 84) to Sir Frederick Pollock: "[It] made me laugh consumedly. . . . The writer['s] ... indecency . . . must have escaped the editors." Critic Wilson's subject: book reviewers ("What a wonderful is liquorary quiddicism! What fastiddily! . . . What unreproachable stammards and crytea-ria!"). Parodist Wilson's chief victims are "Liberary clinics Carl von Doorman, Herbert S. Goren, Gorman B. Munson...