Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their officers had less pleasant things to think about. Before they left they had heard what was wrong with the Army-from the Army's severest critic and one of its best-informed: cave-eyed, earnest Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair. As he had the week before, he called the high-ranking officers of the Armies together, sat them down to listen. In the front row were the two Army commanders: bluff, burly Lieut. General Ben Lear of the Second, and stocky Lieut. General Walter Krueger of the Third. Next to them sat Lieut. General Delos Emmons, boss...
...amazingly charitable to ignorance, who was never too busy, even at the age of 81, to drop his own pressing tasks to answer questions (and when did he ever fall to know the answers?), to discuss scholarly or personal problems, to read bulky manuscripts with the eye of a critic and proof-reader and the heart of a friend...
Closest crony and bitterest critic of Director La Cava, now 49, is another unreconstructed Hollywoodian, one W. C. Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...
This is the greatest mass of rabble-rousing ever compiled-some 100 of Hitler's speeches in one volume-and, in the words of New York Times Critic Charles G. Poore,"the greatest anthology of broken promises." Editor: Franco-American Newspaperman Raoul de Roussy de Sales. Its 987 pages cover the Hitler rhetorical record from an obscure speech in 1922 outlining the seven "most important fundamental principles" of Naziism, which was unnoticed even by the German press, to his proclamation of war against Russia, which was flashed to the whole world...
This essay, abashing to Christmas-Carol Dickensians, arresting to highbrows who have never read Dickens in long pants, is an incisive collaboration by Wilson the Marxist and Wilson the amateur psychiatrist. But Wilson the literary critic is too much on the sidelines. Result: suggestive rather than definitive criticism...