Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed John Albert Macy of Manhattan and Van Wyck Brooks of Westport, Conn., qualify eminently as leading literary critics of the U. S.; were omitted from the list published in connection with the death of Critic Stuart Pratt Sherman (TIME, Aug. 30, BOOKS) because TIME had prime reference to magazine and newspaper practitioners. Onetime associate editor of Youth's Companion (1901-09), onetime literary editor of the Boston Herald (1913-14), and of the Nation (1922-23), Critic Macy now devotes most of his efforts to writing books. Likewise Critic Brooks, since his brief editorial career...
...Said a critic: "After an evening's debauch among the vital pages of the Graphic, after a thorough perusal of the lore of 'Body-Love' Macfadden, the Manhattan 'Mr. Hyde' slinks into bed. The next morning, repentant of the sins of his lower self, 'Dr. Jekyll' emerges from the metamorphosic sleep, rushes to the nearest newsstand to buy the Times. Then, as he sips his breakfast coffee, he reads in neat, encyclopaedic columns -all the news that's fit to print.' But when the day's work is done, when...
Naturally, there have clustered together little groups of serious European thinkers to make the same discovery that Americans have made, that Jazz is a great art form. So, since that sort of thing makes him sick, Critic Ernest Newman last week had at it bitterly in his London Sunday Times, saying...
Other scholars, who had labored long to establish the historicity of Jesus Christ and the Twelve Apostles, read Georg Brandes's book avidly, scoffed at the old-age gesture of a literary critic...
PERELLA - William J. Locke -Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion...