Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League for Justice." Robert Morss Lovett of Chicago, Boston- bred English scholar, educator, critic, liberal publicist, who had long been active in the Citizens' National Committee for Sacco & Vanzetti, issued a call for the formation, at a caucus, in Manhattan, of a Sacco-Vanzetti League for Justice. He and others had drafted aims for such a league...
When Deems Taylor resigned as music critic of the New York World to compose the first really successful U. S. opera, The King's Henchman, he lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last...
...There is also a formal dedication, to the late Critic Stuart P. Sherman...
...word of deep appreciation for the highly intelligent letter of Mr. Frank Vincent Waddy, on the subject of our vituperate critic, Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. Mr. D. D. seems to have brought the skies crashing down upon his head...
...light opera to be staged in the same building. The money for the enterprise must be raised among music patrons. While Mr. Poitras is in France, the work of incorporating and financing is handled in part by Erik Huneker, son of the late James Gibbons Huneker, famed music critic of the Sun, Times, World. To James Gibbons Huneker is attributed the remark "Nothing succeeds like insincerity." His influence is seen in the writing of such critics as George Jean Nathan who love to employ dynamite prose for blowing up anything at all just to see how it looks in little...