Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book of light verse, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939). The smash show has been seen by some 25 million people in 15 countries and contributed more than $2 million in royalties to the Eliot estate. Purists shudder at such commercial success and its spin-offs. Says Critic Hugh Kenner: "Eliot wanted to connect with a popular audience, but Cats wasn't what he had in mind...
...make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable." Such an abominable opinion cannot be excused, yet Eliot has defenders who find the issue regrettable but overblown. British Poet D.J. Enright notes, "A friend of mine made the best observation: 'But good Lord, he did not like anybody.' " Critic Alfred Kazin seems inclined to set Eliot's lapses in a larger context: "As a writer of Jewish background, if I had to ignore all the great writers who made anti-Semitic comments, I'd have nothing to read...
Avril's takeover occurred a week after about 20 men armed with machetes, handguns and steel pikes attacked a church during a Mass being said by the Rev. Jean Bertrand Aristide, a vocal critic of the military government. Thirteen people were killed and 77 wounded. Opposition leaders blamed Namphy's government for the attack and another church burning two days later...
...death-penalty sentences that have come before it. Bird voted to overturn all of them. "She has been twisting the law so that it more closely reflects her own political beliefs," says Kern County District Attorney Edward Jagels, who, like many prosecutors, is an active Bird critic. (Bird refuses to divulge her personal position on capital punishment.) The campaign against the chief is a major factor in the state's gubernatorial race. Republican Incumbent George Deukmejian has led the call for her ouster; with an eye to the polls, Deukmejian's Democratic challenger, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, has stayed...
George Bush sought guidance in Dragnet: "My approach this evening is, as Sergeant Joe Friday used to say, 'Just the facts, ma'am.' " Dan Quayle defined himself through the silver screen: "I identify with that movie Hoosiers." New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean sometimes sounded like a disgruntled movie critic: "They ((the Democrats)) may try to talk like Dirty Harry. But they will still act like Pee-wee Herman...