Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn, on Jan. 26, Richard Starr Untermeyer, 20, Yale sophomore, son of Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer, read a letter from his mother (Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer) deploring the repeated overdraft of his bank balance and telling him he must improve or leave college-and hanged himself."-TIME...
...impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce personality that so ruthlessly slashed at Christianity, democracy, feminism, and modern morality, that held up as ideals the Will to Power and the honest, fearless, cruel, yea-sayings superman. Ecce Homo! The critic and destroyer, the builder and the prophet...
...penetrate. There are houses where a copy of the Mercury has never been seen; where mint juleps are still to be obtained, but where, on the other hand, the residents have felt not call to assassinate their paster. There may be found the works of Joseph Addison, a social critic who wrote as a gentleman for other gentlemen, and who will be read is such dark corners long after Mr. Mencken has jostled past St. Peter and gone to inspect the boobs of Paradise...
M.LICHTENBERGER'S book is a good introduction to the spirit life and works of the hair-raising critic-philosopher-poet Fredrich Nietzsche. As a whole the treaties are concise and brief, the style, simple and clear. The book is not a criticism of Nietzsche but an apology and an appreciation. The adverse critics are frowned on as irreverant and unjust. The gaps in the philosophy are filled in, the rough places smoothed over. It is strange to see the disciple swallow the master in a way that old Friedrich never swallowed anyone or anything. This over-adulation occupies a minor...
...Schumann as Composer and Critic", Professor Hill Music Building, Music...