Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music writing at the National Broadcasting Company for eight years-was one of Walter Damrosch's closest associates. He wrote the music section of the Book of Knowledge and authored several distinguished books on music appreciation in his own right. His "Approach to Music" was described by Critic Leonard Liebling as "definitely the most understandable and useful thing of its kind...
...since Michelangelo took revenge on a Vatican critic of his Last Judgment by limning the carper in the front row of the damned have prominent Roman Catholics so openly condemned an artistic project conducted under impeccable Catholic auspices...
Besides his progress report to Congress, Jim Landis could take some satisfaction last week from showing his OCD predecessor, rolypoly Mayor LaGuardia, longtime Landis critic, that the OCD-approved jet method of quenching fire bombs worked in 15 seconds (TIME, July 27), that the LaGuardia spray method took...
...Roots of American Culture, edited after her death by Critic Van Wyck Brooks, includes eight essays. One examines the esthetic opinions of Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, and the culture of their time. One is an almost book-length study of the early American theater. One is a shorter companion piece on music. One is about the Shakers, who became "a folk" in one generation, then all but died out, due to their insistence on celibacy, in another. There are minor pieces on Negro tradition, folklore, the early U.S. genre painter Voltaire Combe, and the possible future...
Iowa-born Carroll Barnes studied at Washington's Corcoran School of Art, later held a scholarship at Michigan's famed Cranbrook Academy. He got the idea for his heroic-sized statue from a Los Angeles critic who had seen a smaller, 4 ft. 6 in. Paul Bunyan by Barnes at an exhibition, thought it might look well four times as big. His opportunity came when he heard that a sequoia tree standing on the slopes of the Sierras had been weakened in a Mt. Whitney hurricane, and could be cut down. Barnes trucked an 18-ft. section...