Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues-but it is so very, very dull." Complained a hungry-sounding left-wing critic: "In every act someone is eating something. This kind of home-cooked comedy . . . represents...
...Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Baffled Vienna listened to her megalophilic yearnings: "I like champagne, and . . . big houses with big porches, and big rooms with big windows, and big lawns, and big trees, and flowers . . . and big shepherd dogs sleeping in the shade." Wrote one critic: "What does he want, this Saroyan? If he did not live so far away, in San Francisco, I would go and ask him." But Viennese crowded in to see the play anyway; after all, few things made sense these days...
...calls and Hindu rhythms. Instead of repose, listeners felt spastic jerkiness; instead of exalting sonorities, they heard grinding dissonance. After a performance of his Three Short Liturgies of the Divine Presence, which is scored (among other things) for a xylophone and two dried gourds with rattling seeds, one Paris critic snorted: "African witchcraft rather than Christian music...
Music Lesson. In Hanover, Germany, newspaper Critic Klaus Wagner was sentenced to a week's hard labor with a rubble-clearing squad for "disrespect for his elders," i.e., writing a sneering review of an opera performance...
Rage or Resignation. No critic had to excuse Toscanini's present by recalling his brilliant past. In this season's memorable 13 broadcasts, the Maestro has put on -and carried off-demanding programs that would have taxed conductors 30 years younger. He has not taken things easier because of his age, and he did not allow anyone else to either. In a business where wrath is an occupational privilege, Toscanini is still the tyrant of them all. Last week, rehearsing Brahms, the Maestro joyfully sang melodic passages with the orchestra in his croaky voice (which is often audible...