Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage batted about by Authors Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and Charles Rolo (Wingate's Raiders) and by Critic John Mason Brown...
Last week 154 Zorn etchings (the biggest show of his work ever) hung in Chicago's Lakeside Press Gallery. But Zorn's claim to greatness, which still seemed assured when he died in 1920, seemed a lot remoter now. Just one Chicago critic bothered to write up the show...
Died. Paul Rosenfeld, 56, author (Port of New York), music and art critic, a guiding spirit of the American literary renaissance of the 1920s, founder (with Van Wyck Brooks and Waldo Frank) of the "little magazine" Seven Arts, early champion of modernist Composers Stravinsky, Copland, Milhaud; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...critic, aphorist and editor of parts, Cyril Connolly is the latest fashion in bitter elegance in English letters, as his friend George Orwell is the latest fashion in common sense. Connolly's touch of Irish divination and curiosity has given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
...Every critic, however roughly he may seem to wisecrack away the achievements of his enemies, the creators, will sooner or later shyly unlock his playbox...