Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recorded in a neatly gotten-up and handsomely illustrated volume." "The performance of the Antigone?" Shades of boobies and dullards! Has our friend opened the book, or has he merely balanced it in his capacious hand and said, "The book is well worth the public reading?" Pray heavens, sir critic, they may read it to better advantage than thee. But tell me, was there not something asinine in that last roar? Did not the patronizing lion show his ears? I hesitate - perhaps there is slight ground for such rude talk - but our trans-Atlantic cousin has blundered elsewhere...
Prof. John F. Weir, of Yale, has printed a portrait group of the "Theological Faculty of Yale College," upon which a New York critic delivers the sage observation that it "cannot be overpraised in its aims, but must be rather severely criticised in its results...
...received yesterday No. 1 of the Yale Critic. It contains a very good article on "Oratory at Yale," and a number of advertisements which showed much deep thought and editorial ability...
...example of the critical acumen and deep knowledge of the Boston Advertiser man, revealed in his stricture upon Mr. Henschel, the following sentence from yesterday's Advertiser is remarkable : "We could not help recalling Beethoven's own complaint, after hearing a rehearsal of his 'Magie Flute Overture.' " Beethoven's "Magic Flute Overture" must be a new discovery in the musical world, known perhaps only to the critic of the Advertiser. If so, it should certainly be published, so that the curiosity of an eager public may be allayed...
...Julia Ward Howe contributes a sketch of our late Chinese professor to the Critic of March 11. She affects a slight change in the order of his triplicated name, giving it as Kun Hua Ko, instead of the usual...