Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German music is fat and heavy-weight," says Mr. Ernest Newman, distinguished music critic of the London Sunday Times, now visiting New York. Contrasted with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Mr. Newman says those of the French musicians, Bizet, Debussy, and Ravel, are "thin" and "lightweight". Music, then has weight? Modern developments in music prove that Orpheus was an amateur, and that Mozart and Chopin had the merest smattering of musical structure...
Chaliapin's first Boris of the season met with a conflicting reception. Greeted enthusiastically by the audience and most critics, Ernest Newman, brilliant guest critic of The New York Evening Post (TiME, Oct. 13), was disappointed. He had not heard the Russian basso in this role since 1914. He found the great voice gone, the acting selfconscious...
...present reviewer is no critic of poetry: all verse seems to him good verse. His only standard is that poetry shall be the matching of the exact word with the exact thought. Therefore, he is unable to see in the poetry the progress which is more marked in the prose. It may be that the standard of the Advocate in poetry has always been high. It may be, off the other hand, that the technical structure of poetry is not so readily grasped as the technical structure of prose. Or, again, it may be that poetry is more a question...
Manhattanites recalled a time when, for many moons, the Messrs. Shubert similarly banned the rotund, genial presence of Critic Alexander Woollcott* in any of their Broadway pleasure palaces; recalled ruses, disguises, trickery resorted to by the genial Woollcott to deceive the Messrs. Shubert and slip in unperceived; recalled the waning of that feud, a reconciliation and Critic Woollcott's presence again regularly gracing an aisle seat whenever the Messrs. Shubert had something new wherewith to beguile the public in its idle hours...
...Critic Woollcott has been variously associated with The New York Times, The New York Herald and The Sun (New York...