Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kenneth Macgowan '11, co-director with Robert Edmund Jones '10 and Eugene O'Neil '16 of the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York and Philip Bale, Boston theatrical critic, are the two men who have recently risen to deny that Harvard has allowed "its theatrical interests to go into blue obscurity." Both these men find in the Dramatic Club a worthy successor to the 47 Workshop...
TIME'S football critic, who was present at the game, did not see Presidents Hibben, Lowell, Farrand, Kinley and Chase sitting in their seats, and failed to verify an unofficial report that they were present. He deserves a thoroughgoing rebuke...
...Said Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer: "Nathalia can explain practically every line she has ever written; I have heard her uncertain treble clarify passages that have puzzled erudite authors...
...barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses. One poem began with the nebular hypothesis and ended with prohibition; others cantered with a Eugene Fieldian humor; still others coldly glowed with the passion-weary detachment of a woman who has had her fill of life and its motley follies. Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer chortled with elation. Poet William Rose Benét wrote a preface. The English Society of Authors and Playwrights (of which Thomas Hardy is President) asked Nathalia Crane to join them...
Whatever son of Harvard reads the condemnation of these noisy times by that wit and critic, essayist and Philadelphian, Agnes Repplier, will remember the hammers that are building the new Fogg Museum and which are heard between words of some lecture in Emerson or Sever, and readily agree. "Noise", says Miss Repplier, "is savage. It is time that scientists were concerned with some means of collecting sound, carrying it away somewhere and dumping it. We need, not an invention to reproduce or carry sound, but one to eliminate it." And there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor...