Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critics (many of whom are closet composers) so admire her service to music that they never give her a bad notice. Last week the New York Herald Tribune's second-string critic, Francis Perkins, read a book (Drew Middleton's Our Share of Night) through much of the program, finally seemed to sleep. The next day his review was the best she received...
...adoration of Society. During the war, deprived of travel news and automotive ads, it took refuge in fashions ; now it is broadening its base to run more of its famous literary letters from abroad, more sports, more art. (This year it has doubled its 25,000 circulation.) Its theater critic: Harry Bull, only editor member of Manhattan's Drama Critics Circle...
...also the grandson of Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, grandnephew of Critic Matthew Arnold, nephew of Novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward, son of Biographer Leonard Huxley...
...cinema critic who can also lay claim to being a first-class moviemaker is a blue-eyed, Milquetoast-mustached Scot named John Grierson. At 48, John Grierson might well call himself the father of the documentary. A minor proof of paternity: he was the first to call the fact film a "documentary." As a documentary-maker for the British Government (1927-39), he trained most of that country's current crop of experts. During the war, he bossed Canada's wartime National Film Board and turned out the excellent series of shorts called World in Action and Canada...
...monograph, Thomas Hardy, was intelligent and informative, but not in a class with Cecil's The Young Melbourne. Two books by George Orwell-Animal Farm, a penetrating satire on Soviet dictatorship, and Dickens, Dali and Others, a collection of essays-introduced many Americans to a vigorous British critic who observes life and literature with an eye that is usually more sharp than bloodshot...