Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic Edward Wilson's latest book, which has aroused legal furors in three states, with cases pending in several others, is not in the regular stacks of the library but is locked instead in a special case, once euphemistically referred to by library workers as "the Interne...
...Hecate County was what the nonliterary citizen would call a raw book and decidedly not for the high-school youngsters. One of its six short stories had 20 more or less detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse. But Memoirs was no flippant bedroom farce. Fat, fiftyish Author Wilson, book critic for the New Yorker, had written it as a critique of modern manners and morals. Most reviewers agreed that it was an honest and intelligent work; many a reviewer and reader found it labored, obscure, pedantic and depressing. By all the form charts it should have been forgotten except perhaps...
Leafing through the Sept. 15 issue of Vogue, British Author George Orwell, literary critic (Dickens, Dali and Others) and political satirist (Animal Farm), ran across a picture of himself in Vogue's "spotlight," found himself described as a "plain speaker" and a "direct writer." Leafing a little more, he generated some direct thoughts on U.S. fashions, women and mores. Last week the New Republic printed them...
...young and mischievous dancer named Iva Kitchell had rented Manhattan's 2,700-seat Carnegie Hall with considerable misgivings last week. But dance fans almost filled the place. Wrote the New York Times's dance critic John Martin: "If Miss Kitchell has her eye on Madison Square Garden, her friends need feel no qualms. . . . She . . . ought to be compelled to travel about the country on the trail of the various ballet companies to restore sanity...
...best guide is Thomas' own background and beliefs-which are helpfully summarized in Critic John L. Sweeney's introduction to this volume of poetry and prose. Like many another of England's poets-Donne, Herbert, Vaughan-Dylan Thomas is of Welsh lineage. He is also what the old Welsh bards called a "shaper"-one who refashions and revivifies the language bequeathed him by the poets of the past...