Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than an imagined menace to conservatism is evidenced by the fact that it is being talked about by those who are usually reticent concerning fads and fancies. Mr. Wahio Frank has stopped analyzing America long enough to vivisect this latest of arts, in the New Republic. His criticism is more sapient than the average bombast against innovations, because it has a universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that...
...zest a really ambitious tournament adds to the occasion and hence is out to sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome of Mr. Tilden in the event, that his all-American acting team should be chosen, it only on the basis of Critic Benchley's cogent comment that Tilden could probably coin more cash with Pyle's than with his own theatrical troupe...
...Macgowan, who addressed the Ford Hall Forum last night, has been dramatic critic for three metropolitan newspapers, has been Director of the Provincetown Playhouse and the Green-which Village Theatre, and is at present Director of the Actors' Theatre in New York...
Amusing, even trenchant, are the remarks which Robert Littel (himself a critic of no mean ability) has to offer, in the New Republic, concerning the art of book reviewing. His article, whether taken seriously as a professional indictment or genially as a personal confession gives rise to a feeling that what he says is more or less true. Reviewers, Mr. Littel writes, are notably overworked persons; and consequently their styles the excepts a choice minority) have come to be strangely, and most grotesquely, similar. They seem to have certain words which they invariably use, and without which no book review...
Professor Meiklejohn, formerly President of Amherst College, is a brilliant speaker and a profound critic of our educational system. President McCracken of Vassar College is one of the leaders in the movement for extending the students' share in shaping the curriculum. On the opening night of the conference these men will present divergent viewpoints for the consideration of the delegates...