Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regards the duties of this proposed Cabinet member, the bill says in part: "He shall collect, collate and report, at least once a year or oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics relating to the fine arts of the United States." Said Forbes Watson, able critic of The New York World: "Since the avowed object of the bill in general is to advance taste 'in America, and since the 'arts of design' constitute only a fraction of the arts, why should Governmental supervision go only half way? Let us have a Department of Poetry, directed...
...Bootlegger remained, best of all best dogs. Said W. A. Davenport, critic: "He is a corky little chap, with a varmint expression, and his name is Barberryhill Bootlegger. He is the property of Bayard Warren and was born in the Barbary Hills Kennels, Pride Crossing, Mass., on Dec. 21, 1920. His mother was Western Wistful, a lady of great distinction and considerable social prominence. His father was Barberryhill Gin Rickey, an alcoholic champion whose son inherits his liberal ideas, as you can see by the name...
Thus far, the path of the critic has been smooth. But the question, what uniform basis can be employed, is not easy to answer. For most subjects, however, the absolute, standard can be eliminated at once--it is utterly inapplicable. This leaves only the relative grading--which is equally inapplicable to such courses as mathematics, where an absolute rating is not only possible but imperative. And even in the other courses, a relative grade-curve has ineradicable defects. The Freshmen, for example are required to have three C's and one D to avoid probation; if they chance...
...Discourses on Dante," Professor Grandgent's book, comprises a number of essays which serve as a fresh interpretation of Dante's thought and of Italian literature. Professor Grandgent is admittedly the leading American critic of Dante...
Sherwood Anderson is an enigmatic figure in American letters ; for there are critics of equal note who find in him little more than vague, abstruse, some what vulgar meanderings. There are those who consider him possessed of great beauty of style, others who see in his sentences grotesque and jumbled collections of words, those who find a sort of visionary health in his philosophy, others who pronounce his ideas those of a decided psychopath. Cham pioned by H. L. Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned...