Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are as many points of view in regard to dramatic criticism as there are critics and the reason for this rather deplorable state of affairs is evident: criticism in the modern sense is merely a discussion of the critic's temperament as it is affected by the subject under the microscope at the moment...
...Chicago Tribune lugubriously pointed out that if prohibition will sacrifice health needs to the mere possibility of using a distasteful tonic as beer, the end of the matter might well be the prohibition of the raising of grain, fruit. Simultaneously wise Mark Sullivan (political critic) suggested that the eastern wets were all wrong in advocating "beer and wine" because in the West beer is dreaded as much as anything. The reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through...
...difficult in reviewing Brahms' Requiem to restrain superlatives, and although it seems customary to bar any superlative but a negative from a critic's vocabulary, the reviewer must ask pardon in this case...
...Said Critic Lawrence Gilman of the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole of it is vital and dis- tinguished music, but the slow movements, the largo, is not only an exquisite piece of writing, but it is charged with a depth of feeling, a poetic beauty, a musing, tenderness...
...above all Harvard, has no use for the forms of religion. He lives in an age, as well as in a period of his own life, of revaluation of primary moral and intellectual conceptions; his comfortable faiths and prejudices when tested with experience and the white light of intellectual criticism reveal the bare skeleton of dogma, and as such become abhorrent. That he goes too far in rejecting the background of faith is the charge made categorically against him by the self-righteous and captious critic, who does not realize that it is only by passing through such a necessary...