Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only two critics defended de Pachmann in the public prints. These were Gilbert Gabriel of The Sun and The Globe and Alexander Woollcott of The New York Herald, who happens to be a theatre critic...
...Such a critic will be tempted to suggest that Roosevelt--this great American, this historian and man of letters who took no course in either history or composition, was molded most during his College years away from College in the Maine woods. Certainly, to take another example, the biographer of Ralph Waldo Emerson admitted that the Concord sage underwent "no single definitive and manifest change" as an undergraduate. Charles Francis Adams once declared that for him "the college course, instead of being a time of preparation for the hard work of life, was a pleasant sort of vacation" and Henry...
...Academy; Dr. David Jayne Hill, former Ambassador to Germany; Col. Robert M. Thompson, also a graduate of the Naval Academy a life-one friend of the Navy League; Judge William McAdoo, Chief City Magistrate of New York and former Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Mr. William Howard Gardiner, naval critic; col. Henry Breekinridges former Assistant Secretary of War. Any citizen of the United States is eligible to membership...
Especially enthusiastic was the audience over the rendering of the Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome". Of this version, one critic said, "The music exhales languors, weaves repetitions, sensuously rustles and prickles. When Strauss would have it a smother of sensuality in the full, thick, velvet voices of horns and violoncellos; when he would have his wood-winds bite as with the little white teeth of Salome in the old chronicles; when the dance ends in a whirr of trills, high and shrill, darting and piercing, the conductor was heightening voice to the composer and as quick, sure-fingered...
This gentleman, so decoratively inclined, so exotically opinioned, so clever in a wispish sort of way, was born in Cedar Rapids, Ia., was graduated from the University of Chicago, has a brother who is a prominent Middle Western banker. Van Vechten started life as a musical critic. He has also been a dramatic critic. Perhaps he would now like to be known as a critic of life?or perhaps that is a bit too serious for him. Perhaps he will tell you that life to him is merely a grotesque and occasionally beautiful picture at which he likes to look...