Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis Kronenberger, drama critic for Time Magazine, will teach two English courses and will live in Eliot House during the Spring term, Walter A. Bate '46, chairman of the Department of English, disclosed yesterday. Kronenberger was named the first Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of English in September...
...book, Seen Any Good Movies Lately? (Doubleday; $3-75), ex-Critic Zinsser takes up in general terms the question that has had New York newsmen buzzing for weeks: Was Bill Zinsser kicked upstairs because of pressure from advertisers? "It is generally assumed in New York motion picture circles." Zinsser writes, "that a movie studio can soften an adverse review-in advance-by bringing pressure on a newspaper. Unhappily, there is some truth in this belief." He insists that no such pressure dislodged him, says that he asked to be relieved. But he notes that his removal coincided with...
...tireless pursuit of mediocrity and unreadability, the nation's run-of-the-film movie critics have transformed themselves into a group dispensary of tasteless, colorless and odorless critical treacle, ignored on a wholesale basis by the moviegoer, sampled only by the movie industry itself, which is merely vigilant for any sign of recalcitrant tartness. The New York Film Critics met recently to wring hands over the cases of Zinsser and Gilbert, deplored industry pressure for two hours, and adjourned. "Nothing was done by the critics," wrote New York Post Critic Archer Winsten with some bitterness, "and nothing will...
...Critic-Author Aline B. Saarinen (wife of Architect Eero Saarinen) makes the point in a study of great American collectors published this week (The Proud Possessors; Random House; $5.95): "Their overpowering common denominator is this: for each of them, the collecting of art was a primary means of expression...
...said that the newspaper critic must be a reporter and a judge, and Popkin added that he should "try to win an audience for something that...