Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, mention must be made of the burlesque athletic dance again by the Foolish Four at which at least one prominent critic in the audience laughed himself weak. This and the settings and the four-ply talent in other places successfully draw the listener's attention from the fact that the revue as a whole is andeniably not of the best...
...that he should do it badly, but that he should do it at all." Fearful of becoming the butt of such quadrupedantry, the wise Dr. Johnson abjured wires, seldom removed his shoes.* Not so cautious was Roger Fry, proclaimed by many educated people to be the best Art critic in the world. He painted pictures and last week exhibited them in the Joseph Brummer Galleries, Manhattan...
...defined Art as "that which formulates that without which there is no Art." Afire to see how the critic would demonstrate his principles in the clear paint, painters, students, flocked last week to his exhibit...
...Harkness Tower and the Quadrangle?" gasps a freshman fresh from Cactus Plant, Arizona. "That's something like a college!" The critic is assertive and confident in his judgment. He has often heard the Yard spoken of as a salad of monstrosities, and just as often has heard Harkness Tower praised as the finest college building in America...
...what will become of the amateur critic and his criticism when he learns that the criterion of his artistic judgment has been attacked upon very sound grounds? Professor Alfred E. Zimmern the noted English educator, condemns Harkness for its "imitativeness of Europe" and grows eloquent over the Bush Terminal Building because it represents "a real piece of the American mind." The word "piece" is important, since it leaves one to believe there are other pieces...