Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Emmet Sherwood's feet fill size 13 shoes. He is editor and cinema critic of Life, and author of The Road to Rome, highly successful comedy...
...Because of Cincinnati's famous art collections and its interest in music, it is already in the forefront of American cities as a cultural oasis in an arid land." This was an opinion offered by famed Art-critic (of the New York Times) Royal Cortissoz, as quoted, under the headline "Oasis," in the Cincinnati Enquirer, last week...
...other hand, one feels that it is a little bit hard on a lecturer if all his little mannerisms, whether of speech or gesture, are to constitute an indictment against him, as one critic suggests. Even the B.B.C. announcers, who must of course be the most perfect speakers, have their little manenrisms...
...discussion of "The Critic and American Life" in the current issue of The Forum, Professor Irving Babbitt, after denouncing what he terms the "superior intellectual vaudeville" of Mr. H. L. Mencken and pointing out the ineffectuality of modern American criticism, hastens to show that the unsatisfactoriness of creative effort today is largely a result of the unsatisfactoriness of higher education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds...
...Critic Silenced. Purple with cold, humble in spirit, Major Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, one of the most vociferous orators in the U. S. House of Representatives, arrived at Boston. The Navy had given him a ride around Cape Cod from New London, Conn., in the S-8 which made a dive on the way. Major La Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building...