Word: criticize
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...primitive images of blacks -- the Noble Negroes in Art Deco drag -- that others tended to produce as an antidote to the vile stereotypes with which white popular art had flooded the culture since Reconstruction. Nevertheless, he gained self-confidence from the Harlem cultural milieu -- in particular, from the art critic Alain Locke, a Harvard- trained aesthete who believed strongly in the possibility of an art created by blacks that could speak explicitly to the African-American community and still embody the values of modernism. Or, in Locke's words: "There is in truly great art no essential conflict between racial...
...surely would not have turned to Tony Randall. And it certainly would not have expected him to direct Ibsen or to cast himself repeatedly in romantic leads decades younger than he is. At the dawning of his grandiosely named National Actors Theatre, Randall recalled last week, New York Times critic Frank Rich characterized the venture as a TV actor's ego trip...
...West] helps us expand our resources considerably in Afro-American religion and Afro-American theology," said Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann. "He is a cultural critic who draws on the traditions of the Afro-American church...to address broad public issues...
...five year interim he proposed last month to four. He also agreed to exempt current tutors from the restrictions; his previous decision not to do so was viewed by some as an effort to get rid of David Bear '92, a Dunster tutor who has been an outspoken critic of Liem...
...have acquitted themselves fairly well in supporting the new, improving Moscow. Their ministrations in calming even wilder frontiers have, in contrast, been notable duds. George Bush decided to let Europe settle Yugoslavia. Europe decided it needed the U.N., which decided it needed America, which is where Bill Clinton, famous critic of Bush's nonpolicy toward the Balkans, came in. Clinton, who also inherited Bush's more active strategy for Somalia, embodies the tendency of privileged nations in appearing newly allergic to foreign affairs. By ^ everything he has said and done since taking office, this most domestically minded of recent...