Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was happening in Iowa City said one critic, should not happen even in a Manhattan museum. The State University had put on a summer show of 160 modern pictures, and there was not one old-fashioned landscape in the lot. Instead there were angular moderns, surrealist viscera and patterned streaks and splotches...
...full cry. John S. Sumner, who as executive secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice has probably read more dirty books, looked at more obscene postcards, and watched more burlesque shows than any man in the U.S., last week got the law on Book Critic Edmund Wilson's best-selling (50,000 copies), clinically sexy Memoirs of Hecate County (TIME, March...
...Weber is a zealous scholar, hunting and trapping the smallest details. He is also a zealous critic, going well out of his way to lambaste certain "modern" writers (T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, et al.) whose beliefs and techniques differ from those of Hardy...
...Offense Meant. The appearance of Jude the Obscure in book form (1895) was the greatest shock of all. A critic for the New York World denounced it as coarse "beyond belief . . . almost the worst book I have ever read. ... When I had finished the story I opened the window and let in the fresh air." Poor Hardy, mild-mannered and at heart probably the least coarse of British novelists, thereupon threw up his hands. He told his U.S. publishers to withdraw the book if they saw fit-"it is so much against my wish to offend the tastes...
...long ago Leonard Feather, England's gift to the jazz critic's profession, arranged an album for the Victor company called "Esquire's All-American Hot Jazz." It features some of the musicians chosen by the Esquire people, including Mr. Feather, for their 1946 Gold Awards. There are four twelve-inch sides, three of which represent the not quite successful efforts of such noteworthies as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Red Norvo to turn a trio of Feather's weird compositions into memorable music...