Word: criticize
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...bears many of the influences of what the Russians call the "Great Patriotic War" (known to us as World War II). It can be considered a case study of the different aesthetic views of the East and the West at the start of the Cold war. As one critic wrote of it, "It is one of the most beautiful, most exalted of [Prokofiev's] works...this great work shows once again how immeasurably superior Soviet music is to the music of the Capitalist West." Ironically, aside from a few such critics, the symphony had a poor reception in the Soviet...
...harder and do better. "And we don't want to start in our mid-30s," says Los Angeles bank manager Shannon Kowalewski, 27. "They saw their parents go through all these possessions--new lovers, new material goods, new sensory experiences--and saw that didn't do it," says cultural critic and author Naomi Wolf. "They learned from those mistakes and have different values and desires from their parents...
...take money from the government, you subject yourself to the mercies of the political process--which is also open, as the recent history of the NEA (not to mention history, period) proves, to philistines and worse. American Canvas reminds us that they are not all on the right. Critic Edward Rothstein put it tartly in the Times: "Washington liberals took a similarly vulgar view [to conservatives], focusing on their own versions of 'values' and treating art as a form of social therapy doled out to interest groups." We must be grateful for the rude health and increasing diversity of popular...
...between architecture and painting, in which both come out badly maimed," declared Art Critic John Canaday on Page One of the New York Times. "The most beautiful building in America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror... Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum...opened to the public last week... What first visitors...
Brustein then decided to pursue a Ph.D in Jacobian Drama at Columbia. During this time, he travelled to England on a Fulbright Scholarship where he directed and began work as a critic...