Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emerson could say of Thoreau that his thyme and marjoram were not yet honey, it will be forgiven a critic of The Harvard Advocate, I hope, to remark that the Freshman number just out is more than usually undigested. It is pleasant of course to observe reflections of standard authors in the work of students, and doubly so to have a dash of Latin and Greek quotations. But the results are more satisfactory if the tyro adapts his production rather than copies the originals closely. There are interesting speciments of various stages of playing the sedulous ape in the current...
...scholar and critic M. Fay has won an international reputation. In the past four years he has written a number of keen articles on American ideas and American politics, which have appeared in the "Correspondant" and other French periodicals. Last winter he published a series of articles on French literature from 1880 to 1924 which have attracted wide attention. M. Fay is one of the leaders of the modern French school, and he has been in great demand as a lecturer on the modern theories of criticism...
...possible for a woman to paint a great picture? This question, a hoary one, was revived last week by a critic in directing attention to the symposium of art reviewers (males); it was answered in the negative. Women, said they, have lost the fine impulse for original creation in the centuries of artistic repression which they have undergone. "Paint they can, but not on canvas," said the critics...
...Stallings is a critic of no mean power. When you first meet him you gain an impression of bulk, and of a winning smile. He is a Southerner with a soft Southern voice, and he has many of the ingratiating qualities which are often associated with gentlemen of the lower part of the U. S. His attitude of mind is eager, even penetrating. So alert a mentality is apt to be a trifle impatient of the slowness of others' minds. Mr. Stallings is not characterized by literary or intellectual patience, although, as a man, I imagine, he has unusual...
...more because of his War record than anything else. But now the staunchest Conservatives have words of praise for him. Premier MacDonald is a great reader and a good writer. He has, by the way, the greatest private Socialist library in existence. He is also a not mediocre Art critic, into the bargain (TiME, July 21, ART). Iconoclast,* who is now known to be Mary Agnes Hamilton, has written a good biography of the Premier. Perhaps it is a little flattering, but not much...