Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presence of nine miniature communities of gypsies in Cambridge has caused the consternation of Councilman Michael A. Sullivan, leader of the sixth ward and oft-time critic of the University...
...Broadway the success of a play is usually determined by the drama critics of the New York papers. There are a few exceptions, such as "Tobacco Road" and "Hellzapoppin," that succeed in spite of bad notices, but nine times out of ten if a critic says "No" you may be sure the play will fold shortly. The success of a motion picture depends very slightly on critical acclaim. Proper exploitation and the star system have been developed into a fine art in Hollywood. It is advertising that accounts for a picture's financial success. And to Hollywood, money...
...state of affairs when cheap publicity stunts, lavish newspaper and magazine displays determine the success of a movie. Though the film critic may feel unwanted and unheeded at the moment, he should persevere with intelligent and constructive criticism. Such a potent influence on American morals and manners as the movies needs more surveyance than is offered by the public with its latent and incoherent reactions, or by the Hollywood producers who allow commercialism to triumph over integrity and honesty...
...that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
Radio's most untrammeled critic last week put out a little book that was, like himself, benignant but free from bunk.* As an introduction to broadcasting, and as a try at a sound point of view on the subject, it had few predecessors and no up-to-date rivals. Everything defensible in radio it defended; )'et its strictures and warnings came opportunely at a time when U.S. radio faced the responsibilities of its first...