Word: criticizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perry before going to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an associate professor of English in 1929. By 1935, with The Great Tradition, a Marxist survey of U. S. literature since the Civil War, and a stream of contributions to leftist journals, he had established himself as a partisan but respected critic of letters. He had also become an editor of the New Masses and a known Red. Rensselaer unceremoniously kicked him out on the pretext of "retrenchment,"' but the American Association of University Professors said he had been fired because he was a radical. Since then Hicks has written...
Last week the Guild's most persistent critic and its largest champion met head-on in public debate in Manhattan. Before a hostile crowd of 700, mostly Manhattan Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
...already strenuous list of activities, Mumford in 1931 added that of Visiting Professor of Art at Dartmouth, a job he filled until three years ago. With Esthete Paul Rosenfeld, Bard Alfred Kreymborg and Critic Van Wyck Brooks he founded The American Caravan to publish experimental writing. On this board of editors Lewis Mumford was the golden mean. In a sense he has performed the same function among liberal and left-wing thinkers. Without the literary edge and personality of an Edmund Wilson (TIME, March 21) but also without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed...
...Nazi Germany's war on the Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism's most experienced critic of Nazi ideology is Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In practical dealings with Nazis no German prelate is more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
...Albert J. Guerard-Holt ($2.50). Divorce tragedy, ranging through Iowa, California, Paris, a Swiss sanatorium, as seen through the eyes of an editor's precocious ten-year-old son. A first novel, written at 20, by the precocious, 23-year-old son of Stanford's Professor-Literary Critic Albert L. Guerard...