Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Clayton Hamilton, 64, playwright, critic, 16-time Pulitzer Prize juror, who swung the 1920 play award to Newcomer Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Edwin Meade ("Ted") Robinson, 67, literary critic, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist since 1910; of a heart attack; in Provincetown, Mass...
...mind had not been called by any government. It was largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
James Norman Hall, Tahiti-dwelling author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the Bounty series, discomfited many a book critic with a wicked confession: Fern Gravel, a child poetess whose volume, Oh, Millersville!, made a merry little noise in literary circles six years ago, existed only in Hall's brain. Deadpanned Hall in the Atlantic: Fern had come to him in a dream, and dictated such deathless verse...
...love it, but still I wish that once in a while I could go To cities like Omaha and St. Joe. Hoixer Hall maintained that he was moved to confession by "twinges of conscience." He deserved more twinges for quoting, to their present shame, the past happy squeals of critics. Sample, from Poet-Critic Paul Engle (American Song): "There is so warm a feeling of validity about these verses, and so accurate a sense of individual character that their impact is far stronger than a simple amusement at childish simplicity...