Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was learning his trade 15 years ago writing TIME'S Books section, and turning out some poetry and an occasional novel of his own, one of Matthews' novels moved a fellow critic to begin his review as follows: "Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye, and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord...
...English language has come to a sad state, decided London literary critic George Orwell (Dickens, Dali and Others; Animal Farm). In the current New Republic,* he tells what is wrong...
Shakespeare (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Harvard Professor Theodore Spencer, Drama Critic Louis Kronenberger and Author John Mason Brown discuss Richard III on Invitation to Learning...
Head & Heart. What people thought of Joe Patterson depended largely on whether they agreed with him-a difficult task. Many people liked his paper, but few loved him in a way that public figures are often loved. (Around the News only ex-Theater Critic Burns Mantle, 72, dared call him "Joe.") It was hard to be neutral about Joe Patterson's News. It was widely hated (even by people who could not stop reading it) for its blind prejudices, and the adroit, insidious, vindictive way it advocated them...
...year lease of the movie rights. It is dedicated "to those who sometimes awake suddenly to stare into the leisure of the night and consider with brief terror how their lives are spent." Least effective when it is most solemn, it reaches its top levels when sardonically demonstrating what Critic Clifton Fadiman calls "the yawning disproportion between the ingenuity of the means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope that The Hucksters' venom indicates a growing rebellion against the sins of advertisers. It might be what Evan Evans would call (tossing...