Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief radio critic of Orator Coughlin is Father William Charles Kernan (pronounced Kernan), a Yale-trained ('23) high church Episcopalian, rector of Bayonne, N. J.'s Trinity Episcopal Church. Last fortnight, in the fourth of a series of anti-Coughlin blasts on Manhattan Station...
Appointed by President Conant to promote the study of American history not only among the students of the University but also among the public, the American History Committee last year presented public lectures by Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Bernard DeVoto, author and critic...
Starting with a short lecture on swing by George Frazier, noted swing critic, Stan Brown's Crimsonians demonstrated the rise and fall of jazz last night in Sanders Theatre to an enthusiastic audience of 350 students and two Music 1 assistants...
Heywood Broun began writing his column in the World in 1921; F. P. A. moved The Conning Tower from the Tribune in 1922; in 1923 Walter Lippmann took charge of the editorial page; from 1925 to 1928 Alexander Woollcott flourished as the World's dramatic critic. Rollin Kirby wrote editorials when he felt like it, besides drawing his long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (On the Road to Moscow), another in 1924 (News from the Outside World) and a third...
Pretext for the ban was an article accused of slandering Italy's celebrated crippled poet, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The author of the piece, a young Italian critic who had dug up. much new material on Leopardi, admitted, the poet was "never very strong," but suggested that Leopardi's poor health may have been aggravated by his passion for ice cream...