Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...text of the diary--Mencken the man--is harder to decode. Though the one-time founder and editor of the American Mercury was a literary critic who prided himself on sifting through other writers' pomposity, he seemed to find his own methods of criticism strangely removed from his life. Rarely does he present in the diary the introspective or self-critical ponderings that mark so many other diaries...
Mencken was really a man of his times, and despite his reputation as a vitriolic critic of American hypocrisy and greed, he shared more than a little intellectual common ground with those who perpetuated a status quo based on race, class, gender and religious bias...
This lack of self-awareness on Mencken's part is indicative of the ideology which spawned his fame. His was a public life, and a privileged one, and he conceived of his role in American society as that of the unassailable critic, as one who thought his message was as important as his means. An eternal fondness for dismissing sacred cows did not mean that Mencken as a man or as a writer even began to address...
...writing, for the most part, is uninspired. A harsher critic might say that it is just plain dull. Almost never does a sentence in How Harvard Rules cry out to be read...
...grandfather's analysis of the "Cosby Show," for example, is more accurate, insightful, and meaningful than any dedicated critic of art could want. He watches diligently, forms his opinions and then proclaims them to his audience--me, my grandmother or the family pictures on the coffee table--like a professor explaining slides to a large class...