Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacationing" in Europe. I came here to see for myself what can be done for the wretched and hopeless. . . . The ruin and death and agony might move even your "critic's" mean little heart. I have been here two months, and am sick with compassion and my own impotence...
Whatever "success" I have obtained, I obtained it by sweat, work, tears and hard determination. I can only believe that your "critic" is a disappointed would-be writer, whose "delicate" prose has not been appreciated by the American people, and so he is consumed with envy and spite...
...your "critic's" remark about my books appealing to only the "stunted" in intelligence, he insults the vast body of American book-buyers and readers who, by the evidence of their letters to me, have bought and read my books. Your "critic," too, will amuse and please only the few of my personal enemies who resent my "success," and envy me, as does this gentle gentleman...
...TIME'S alleged "critic" does envy Author Caldwell's ability to dish...
...visiting Italians was buxom, blonde Ebe Stignani, whom many European critics consider the greatest mezzo-soprano of the day. She was superb in Il Trovatore, and she even lifted a drab production of La Favorita. After Favorita one critic said that Stignani could make Three Blind Mice sound like celestial music...