Word: criticize
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...campaign against Gov. William F. Weld '66, Roosevelt has become an outspoken critic of expanding casino gambling in Massachusetts. It's a curious strategy; casino gambling is an idea which enjoys the support not only of Weld, but also of the majority of the state's residents...
With that, Cambridge's most notorious city councillor--a convicted felon who awaits sentencing on 41 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy--added another title to his illustrious list: art critic (or art thief, depending on your point of view...
Writing in 1901, the distinguished black critic and poet William Stanley Braithwaite argued, "We are at the commencement of a 'negroid' renaissance," one that "will have as much importance in literary history as the much- spoken-of and much-praised Celtic and Canadian renaissance." Others came to share his optimism. Just three years later, a critic declared the birth of the "New Negro Literary Movement." At the time, after all, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the novelists Pauline Hopkins and Charles Chesnutt, and the essayists W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper were at the height of their creative powers...
...Eklund, a prominent European literature critic for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, told The Associated Press, "It should be time for a European author...
Several campus leaders say they have been impressed by the new approach, which Wilson says was prompted by feedback from students involved in Radcliffe programs. Matt L. Bruce '96, editor of the conservative publication The Salient, which has been a critic in the past, says Radcliffe's attempt to enhance its presence on campus is "admirable...