Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio may have to change the stock answers which it has given to critics of its daytime serials. It has always reminded such critics that they may not like soap operas, but some 20,000,000 U.S. women do. But last week a critic who had to be listened to (Hooper survey's Dr. Matthew N. Chappell) confronted the networks with some cold serial facts and an intelligent reading of them...
From now on nighttimers will be offered samples of such daytime "classics" as Big Sister, Second Husband, Bachelor's Children, Joyce Jordan, Pepper Young's Family. CBS Critic-Author Gilbert (The Seven Lively Arts) Seldes, spent a fortnight listening to "every bloody thing" on the daytime networks before choosing 14 of CBS's daytime serials to offer night listeners. Says Seldes: "Our daytime programs are beyond criticism-socially speaking...
...some clever touches. It provides some amusing moments, chiefly at the expense of the gabbling, skeptical townspeople (though their skepticism can hardly be termed extreme). It enables Cinemactor Stuart Erwin to perform, man and tree, very likably. But the play, with its single frail idea, lacks movement and variety. Critic Sir Leslie Stephen once said that certain things are interesting only because they actually happened. That applies, on the whole, to men turning into trees...
...years ago abruptly severed relations with his own dream college, North Carolina's Black Mountain. Now the professor is back in the news with a Harper prize book, I Came Out of the 18th Century ($3). His brooding, mordant autobiography reveals him as a brilliant critic of teaching and an acid critic of teachers...
...problem which Daiches poses is a crucial one. How shall a sensitive artist with a rich background in the fairly stable tradition of the nineteenth century write about a society where public values have broken down almost completely, and even personality is in flux? The critic traces Virginia Woolf's attempt at a solution, from her earliest novels, through her boldly experimental short stories, to the great achievements of her middle period, and the less successful attempts of her later years, which were carried off by sheer virtuosity in her command of language. He shows how she introduced the lyric...