Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Moriz Rosenthal made his U.S. debut in 1888 the audience reached such a frenzy it had to be forcibly calmed by the police. Swooned the critic of the New York Sun: "A giant of ability, a hero, a demigod, a perfect pianist." Echoed the New York Post: "His powers are so extraordinary that it is difficult to speak of them in measured language...
Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times. Wrote Critic Downes...
Edmund Wilson's latest book is chiefly interesting because it shows an outstanding U.S. literary critic as a satirist in verse and prose. Two of the best pieces are wicked parodies, one in prose, one in verse. Verse parody is the salty Omelet of A. MacLeish, in which Critic Wilson paraphrases the Librarian of Congress' smooth pentameters, feminine endings, assonance and love of colons...
...Critic Abroad...
...London, New York Pier aid Tribune ex-Critic Richard Watts Jr., now Dublin representative for OWI, saw Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, turned himself inside out. Recalling that "all of us" who saw the 1939 production in Manhattan thought the play "hopelessly outmoded," he now found it "one of the great comedies,""one of the incomparable things of the theater," recanted, declaring that in 1939 "we were absurdly wrong...