Word: criticize
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Virgil Thomson was a first-rate music critic, able author, brilliant dinner- party conversationalist and world-class gadfly, but he wasn't much of a composer -- which is, alas, primarily how he thought of himself. Turning his back on nearly every major compositional technique of the 20th century, with the notable exception of pastiche, Thomson wrote archly naive, perversely | wholesome music -- tonal, uncomplicated and almost completely unmemorable...
...feel better about things," saidlongtime HMC critic Albert F. Gordon '59, adding,however, that he believes Harvard should be moreforthcoming about its specific investments...
...happy age." Moreover, surprisingly quirky definitions were offered when the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked, "What for you is complete happiness on earth?" The sensual, said Swiss writer Hans A. Pestalozzi: "Sex with a woman one loves under the smoldering heat of the sun." The mundane, said theater critic Georg Hensel: "Sole fried in butter." And former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declared definitively, "There's no such thing...
Zoglin, who counts himself a "huge fan," has been following Letterman for more than a decade -- tuning in nearly every night since Late Night first aired in 1982. Zoglin arrived at TIME the next year, after four years as TV critic at the Atlanta Constitution. Since then he has watched TV for us with a couch potato's endurance and a sharp but fair-minded critic's eye, writing hundreds of savvy, tightly crafted reviews and features -- as well as cover stories on such subjects as Bill Cosby, Diane Sawyer, Arsenio Hall and Murphy Brown...
...Yeltsin Critic Under Fire...