Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author after a publicity man's heart (see cut). Elliott's answers to a couple of cozy questions on radio's Books on Trial: 1) "I am no Communist;" 2) "I did write the book myself. . . ." Mother Eleanor was his adviser, said he, and "severest critic...
...revealing foreword to the show's catalogue, Critic MacKinley Helm described how he had watched Marin turn a sunset into a painting. Wrote Helm: "With his right hand [Marin] roughed in with black crayon the three elements of the picture-sky, headland and bay; and laid on the color with furious strokes of a half-inch brush in his left hand. His hands fought each other over the paper. . . . 'See that blue spot out there?' Marin said, dabbing impatiently. . . . 'You can't put it on paper-so you just put down a color that...
Roger Sessions' music is for composers and critics, not for mere listeners. Next day the audience was told what it had heard. The San Francisco Chronicle's able critic Alfred Frankenstein, called it "big . . . challenging . . . important . . . austere . . . fiendishly difficult ... a complex of forceful and fruitful ideas which can be studied for a long time before they yield all their secrets...
...rest of the evening was spent in uneasy warfare between those who wanted to stop the show every time Tagliavini sang a note, and those who wanted to get on with the proceedings. Critics generally found Tagliavini a very good, if not yet great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time...
Founded more than fifteen years ago, the Poetry Room was endowed by Harry H. Flagner, who was then President of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society, in honor of his friend, George E. Woodberry '77, for many years professor of English at Columbia University, and a noted poet and critic in his own right, who died...