Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alberto Goldschmidt, 47, is probably the only music critic in the world who insists that he has to carry a revolver. It is purely a matter of self-defense: in the 13 years he has been in Chile, during which time he has written criticism for Santiago's La Hora and Ultima Hora, he has been set upon 14 times by irate readers who objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso...
...review had barely hit the newsstands when the conductor's wife brushed into La Hora's office and stood before Critic Goldschmidt's desk. Madame Paray, a blonde and ample Alsatian, is about 20 years younger than her husband. She is also a loyal wife. For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German. Sighed Goldschmidt as she left: "A real Valkyrie...
...intermission time Madame Paray rushed over to him and screamed: "How dare you come here? I won't stand for your presence!" Then she slapped his face. From all sides his old enemies-conductors, impresarios and artists-closed in, eager to settle old scores. They pummeled the hapless critic, and kicked him right into the street...
...played on the road and had embedded in my fingertips. A concert like the one I gave is just a sales talk unless you're such a tremendous talent it sweeps everything before you; and I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart." The critics agreed. The New York Herald Tribune's critic wrote: "An unusually promising young musician whose talent seems to be following a normal and judicious course of development, he should become an artist of exceptional consequence...
...atheist with a yen for mystical writing, an advanced thinker who sees his old-fashioned childhood as "an age of unearthly bliss," a romantic "anarchist" who insists that "we must not assume that art and machinery are mutually exclusive, but experiment until we discover a machine art." As art critic and esthetic philosopher, Read is erudite and discerning; as a writer, he is precise and dry, so that his prose shows at its best on subjects that need no embroidery. Example: the World War I chapter named "A Journal of the Retreat of the Fifth Army from St. Quentin," which...