Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene Tunney, most scholarly of the ex-world heavyweight champs, turned up in the Saturday Review of Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
...there was still another ending to the episode. Comfortable, florid ABC Vice President Ed Borroff was among the listeners that day. A longtime critic of such programs, he decided that the cliff-hang ending had gone quite far enough. Last week Borroff gave orders which may chip away dangerously at the foundations of all soap operas, as well as kid-chillers. Jack Armstrong and his running mate, Sky King, he ruled, need more time, less suspense. After Aug. 25 the shows will be heard on alternate days and stretched to a full half hour. Each day there will...
...Anguish. In the tiny, clapboard opera theater at Tanglewood, Idomeneo was a joy to hear. Wrote the New York Times's Critic Noel Straus: "For its astounding choral writing alone, Idomeneo would be worthy of frequent hearings. No two of the choruses are alike. . . . Never was Mozart to write a finer operatic ensemble than the great quartet in this opera...
Last week, wags expressed their feeling that the music was derivative in a German pun: "Nicht von einem sondern von anderen" (not by one but by others). By the "others," music lovers meant chiefly Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. But, added one critic: "Mussorgsky never wrote his principal themes for the bass drum...
...Congregationalist Stanley High, graduate of Boston University's School of Theology, served as a pastor for three years, later edited the monthly Christian Herald. Now a roving editor of the Reader's Digest, 51-year-old Layman High still takes time out to be a preacher and critic of Protestantism. Last winter he told U.S. Protestants that they were "preacher-ridden" (TIME, Feb. 17). Last week at East Northfield, Mass., he told an interdenominational audience at the 63rd Northfield General Conference that the church was failing its members. Said High...