Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Express, Critic John Grime was indignant because (said Grime) Disney had announced that he was going to Eire to hunt leprechauns. "... A greater piece of hocus-pocus publicity was never foisted on a realistic world," wrote Grime. Disney had carefully explained that he was going to Eire to look for story ideas for his forthcoming The Little People...
...This is typical," wrote one friendly critic, Norah Alexander of the Daily Mail, "of the flatfooted, unimaginative British approach. . . . I was sorry Mr. Disney should get such a frozen shoulder on his arrival...
...trouble with Tass, said a critic in Moscow's Culture and Life, is that in covering the "main events of international life [Tass dispatches] contain much foreign and special terminology which is not understandable by an ordinary collective farmer." Culture and Life didn't say so, but the inference was that Tass had picked up such bad habits from its capitalistic brothers...
Everyone, even an art critic, has his own way of valuing pictures. Nils Nilsson Skum, a Laplander, values them according to one rule-of-thumb: how many reindeer do they show? His own crayon drawings sometimes have hundreds. He figures that must be why three Swedish museums own them. It was not the reason that Manhattan's Museum of Natural History put his pictures on exhibition last week. The Museum had found a primitive of the likes of upstate New York's octogenarian painter "Grandma" Moses (TIME...
Horace Gregory (46), has been a practicing poet and critic for 20 years and has taught for the last twelve years at Sarah Lawrence College. Russian-born Marya Zaturenska won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for her book of poems, Cold Morning Sky. The Mandarin prose of the Gregorys sometimes gets out of hand, running to dreamy convolutions, their urbanity sometimes permits open enjoyment of an innuendo none too polite; their estimates of one or two poets, notably John Gould Fletcher, are horrifyingly kind, and of one or two others, notably Laura Riding, apparently insensible. But in the main...