Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transcend the secularism of Symphony Hall, teeming with myriad nobodies feverishly clutching their programs. But by so great a performance it can and did transcend these bonds and become the religious credo that it was meant to be. To explain verbally what this meaning is is quite hopeless. The critic pokes into a piece of music from the outside with a long pointed stick, but he can never get at the real essence. To anyone in the audience last night, the meaning could be realized. An attempt to convey that realization to anyone else by a deal of linguistic virtuosity...
Absent from the Great Critics sessions was the sage of Baltimore, Critic H. L. Mencken. But over a beer, Mencken peppered the visitors with a shakerful of critical opinions. Sample: "The thing about Theodore Dreiser always was his enormous unintelligence. He reached heights of unintelligence as great as any of the heights of intelligence that Aristotle achieved...
...Johns Hopkins University last week the weather outside was rainy; indoors it was heavy. Some of America's highest browed literary critics had gathered to discuss just what a critic's job is. Scholars and professors from 30 colleges, professional critics and a handful of writers were there...
Public Record. As a Senator since 1938-first as a vehement, minority critic of the New Deal and later as majority boss on domestic issues-he has probably declared himself on more issues than any man in Congress. His outstanding political characteristic is his insistence on strict legal procedure. He criticized the Nürnberg trials on the grounds that they were ex post facto judgments, and therefore violations of American law. He has seldom altered his course because of public opinion. He calls himself a conservative liberal; his political trademark is: "Go Slow." He is hostile to Big Government...
...Spokane, Drama Critic John Mason Brown told an audience of educators what years of low teacher pay has done to U.S. schools and colleges: "Only too often the finest member of the faculty is the janitor...