Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later, with Canada at war, the Winnipeg Free Press broke the story that the old Bren gun contract had been canceled and relet on a management-fee basis. The Post loudly recalled that it had been right and the Government wrong. Thereafter it constituted itself No. 1 unofficial critic of Canada's fumbling war effort...
Died. Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, 50, expatriate Boston poet and critic, editor since 1915 of the authoritative annual Best Short Stories and, since 1921, of the Best British Short Stories; in Gerrards Cross, Bucks, England...
...substantial group of White House correspondents-including the President's longtime critic, Mark Sullivan-reacted calmly. Impressed by the President's reasonable and earnest manner (in contrast to previous Presidential blowups about the press), they granted that both Marshall and the President had a just grievance. What especially reassured them was the fact that the President of the U. S. had at last brought their own most serious secret worry into the open. An invitation to a public discussion about censorship was at least a step ahead. They were far from agreeing, however, that their very real problems...
Result is that while many a critic thinks that all three Sitwells are as mimsy as borogoves, with a highly refined flair for publicity, few critics think it out loud. Most of them feel like the young man who at one Sitwell function whispered: "You know, the Sitwells are so cruel; so devastatingly cruel, don't you think? Do you think they are going to be too awfully cruel today?" Last year when Edith Sitwell's Anthology appeared, rash Reviewer Hamilton Fyfe thought he would like to find out how cruel the Sitwells would be if somebody criticized...
Popsy (by Fred Herendeen, produced by Theodore Hammerstein & Denis Du-For) depicted an aging mathematics pro fessor whose dream of retiring was temporarily balked by his daughters' marital troubles. Critic Brooks Atkinson (New York Times} :;"... one of the worst plays ever written. Man and boy, this column has not looked at its like since the days of Boudoir." Broadway audiences continually wonder how so many flops get produced. One reason: even the best producers make mistakes. Another was suggested fortnight ago in Variety, by Producer Oscar Serlin (of the hit comedy Life With Father). He took a lusty...