Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical technique is one of exposing through quotation. Using this technique, the critic must be careful that the words he quotes actually appear in the work he attacks, and are not drawn from obscure slots in the CRIMSON files or from even dimmer recesses in the Cambridge collective unconscious ("other-directed," "sibling rivalry," "residual bitterness," "bubble gum," etc.). In Mr. A.'s review many words are enclosed by quotation marks, but few of these words may be found enclosed within the covers of our magazine. By giving us credit for sentences which pour out of his own head or somewhere...
...first public appearance at Villa Acuna, Mexico two months ago, Clements was a sensation. The judges awarded him two ears from his first bull, two ears and a tail from his second. Wrote a critic for El Redondel, Mexico City's bullfight weekly: "The gentleman of the bullring, with a face as impassive as a sphinx, withstood stoically the angry charges of the brave bull. With the tragic rhythm of the bullfight, not moving an inch and employing grace as well as mathematical precision, Clements killed his enemy with one thrust of the estoque [sword]. It was a classical...
...setting was the upper reaches of Amazonia, but Lacour had never been there. So he left his home near Paris and spent three months in Brazil; including ten days on the Amazon-though quite comfortably on a friend's yacht. When his novel was published, one French critic flatly hailed it as "one of the masterworks of his generation." It is not that, but it is still one of the grimmest stories in some time of man's greed, his search for love, and his search for God. Readers had better take warning. Death in That Garden...
Despite its generally cordial atmosphere, the dinner witnessed one clash of opinion when first speaker Lt. Governor Robert F. Murphy, a recent critic of Governor Foster Furcolo's proposed sales tax, launched another attack on the Governor...
Munoz spent his youth in the United States, first trailing his father about Washington in Puerto Rican diplomatic circles, and later as a poet-critic on his own in New York...