Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monk's House, near the village of Rodmell, Sussex. There was plenty of action, with airplanes frequently roaring overhead, dropping incendiaries. Virginia helped to give first aid. When a bomb demolished her London home, destroying valuable murals by Duncan Grant and her sister, Vanessa Bell (wife of Art Critic Clive Bell), she observed: "Every beautiful thing will soon be destroyed...
...always been morbidly self-critical, agonized over almost every book, sometimes suffered a complete nervous collapse. Yet she came of a professional writing clan. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She was related to Thackeray and such scholarly dynasties as the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys. James Russell Lowell was her godfather. She married into the Bloomsbury group, which included Critic Bell, Novelist E. M. Forster, Biographer Lytton Strachey, Economist John Maynard Keynes...
...Most recalcitrant" and stiffest-fined of the condemned Mirror rebels, Ruth Phillips, 35, blonde author of three books of fiction, is also the most articulate critic of her accusers. Twelve years on the Mirror, she was a charter Guild organizer, a militant member of the Executive and Grievance Committees. She changed her mind last summer when 18 Mirror Guildsmen unsuccessfully petitioned the National Convention to oust Executives Milton Kaufman and Victor Pasche. Then began the rebel movement for the A.F. of L. American Newspaper Writers Association. A war of nerves followed at the Mirror...
...easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money for mandolin lessons, and who is "undoubtedly going to be the successor of Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros...
...Mexican painters are good. But Mexicans paint as naturally as U. S. adolescents shag. Usually their painting says something. Says Critic Helm: "The vitality of the new democratic race of Mexicans has been urgent enough to awaken even Indian artists from their natural drowsiness. To the spectator from the North, accustomed to a European tradition which has assumed technical excellence as an essential means, much of the Mexican painting may seem, at first glance, not altogether proficient. There is precious little virtuosity in Mexico, there is even too little sacrificial taking of pains. But more than twoscore living Mexican artists...