Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cancellation might be the conductor's health: there have been persistent rumors of heart trouble. Despite Reiner's assurance that he would try to set up a six-week European tour in the spring of 1960, Chicago papers set up a clamor: "For the first time," wrote Critic Roger Dettmer in the American, "Chicago might have gained a reputation for something else than Prohibition Era hoodlums, gang wars and civic graft. Fritz Reiner owes Chicago an explanation...
...impassioned theme in the strings and horns, unfolded into a busy, brusque scherzo touched with jazz. The finale built to a rushing climax, then subsided in a resigned, dramatically simple theme played by strings and woodwinds. The audience could summon up only polite applause. But Cleveland's Composer-Critic Herbert Elwell found Rochberg's mastery of the tone row remarkable and his symphonic ideas "deeply absorbing." The style, explained Composer Rochberg, was strongly influenced by Schoenberg, but he had a warning for young composers who turn to Schoenberg and Stravinsky too early: "Before you take...
...minor diplomat, Saint-Germain is a diplomat's reconstruction of the negotiations that led up to the peace of Saint-Germain, the temporary truce between French Huguenots and French Catholics before the St. Bartholomew Massacre of 1572. "One can understand his wanting to write the book," sniffed one critic who struggled through it, "but what one cannot understand is why anyone should want to call this diversion the best novel of the year...
Behrman's other stage vehicles include Jacobowsky and the Colonel, No Time for Comedy, and the current Cold Wind and the Warm. When the motion picture version of Jacobowsky appeared last year, one New York critic commented that Nazism and anti-Semitism were not fit subjects for a humorous approach. "He was dead wrong," Behrman says, pointing out that Franz Werfel had told him the true story from which the play was taken at Max Reinhardt's Hollywood home. "Also present was the composer Arnold Schonberg; they were all refugees who had lost everything to the Nazis, but they...
...Greene, then active as a movie critic, wrote a magazine article which referred to, among other things, her "dimpled depravity." In 1938, Shir ley sued for libel, won a $10,000 settlement...