Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic. Near Boise, Idaho, a duck hunter shot & shot, missed & missed. Finally his sympathetic dog swam out and fetched him a decoy...
...Hollywood last winter (TIME, Jan. 27), he left part of a novel which he had been pondering for three years, and a voluminous pile of notes on the unwritten part of the story. There was some talk, then, of having another writer complete the novel from the notes. But Critic Edmund Wilson, friend of Fitzgerald and his "intellectual conscience," chose another way to get this truncated work before the public...
...Hall. The 104 orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's opening of its 100th birthday season...
...hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost of that great comic character Bascom Hawke...
...activities, and meets the expenses of upperclass elections. And with only five cents out of every dollar that you're going to contribute," he shook his bony finger in Vag's face, "the Council maintains itself. It is the only body democratically representing undergraduates like yourself. Its labors as critic and adviser to the administration, represented by dozens of surveys and reports, made possible that N.Y.A. job that keeps you in pocket-money this year...