Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Olin Downes, music critic for the New York Times, made a point of attending the Richard Strauss Festspiele at Frankfort-am-Main the last days of August; and it was his chance to watch Composer-Conductor Richard Strauss, 63 & disgusted, roused to homely emotion. Critic Downes report reached print only last week...
Lucas Kennedy Drinkwater and many another. There were faint murmurs from malcontents that the merger smacked of trust making, "an attempt to publish all the books in the world"-as George Henry Doran once said he would like to do. To these murmurs Harry Hansen, literary critic of the New York World, replied: "So far as controlling writing-that is impossible ... no one can get a stranglehold on brains. The products of writing men crop up in the most unexpected places, and every now and then a wholly unknown and obscure firm makes a ten-strike with a newcomer...
...Significance. Not often does a first novel carry a weight of emotion that makes so fussy a critic as famed Alfred Noyes say: "It is the kind of novel that might have been written by Keats. . . ." The untruth of this statement is valuable as an indication of the flustered enthusiasm this book has caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity...
...black Negress at a washtub, with socks hanging on a clothes line overhead. Displayed at the No-Jury Exhibition (Marshall Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of 480 others for special praise and reproduction by the Art World of Chicago. Wrote Lena McCauley, art critic of the Chicago Evening Post: "It is a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy with...
Last week in Philadelphia Revelry had its first night. Dramatized by Maurine Watkins (author of the play Chicago) from a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, it purported to reveal the degeneracies and deceptions to which the U. S. Government descended during the Harding administration. Said a critic: "It tells a sordid story of misplaced trust and unseemly gorging at the public treasury...