Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work had moments rather than momentum. The music consisted of only a few themes linked by weak chains. One motif-that of romantic love-was warm, sweet and haunting. And occasionally voices rose in skillful counterpoint. There were echoes of Puccini-one was tempted, as a Belgian critic put it, to shout at Menotti: 'All right then, simply sing like Puccini...
Died. Gordon Evans Dean, 52, a senior vice president of General Dynamics Corp., onetime (1950-53) chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and later critic of U.S. atomic policy, assistant dean at Duke University Law School (1930-34); in the crash of a Northeast Airlines Convair; in Nantucket, Mass, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Wolcott Gibbs, 56, writer and drama critic for The New Yorker magazine, author of the 1950 Broadway hit comedy Season in the Sun, which chronicled the sins and insecurities of the Manhattan literary set's Fire Island summer resort; of a heart attack at his summer home on Fire Island...
George Orwell was a pilgrim who hated progress and found an empty shrine at the end of a blind alley called socialism. Famed British Critic V.S. Pritchett has called him "the conscience of his generation." An extremely troubled conscience it was, and Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier does much to explain...
...pipe stuck in his jacket pocket, its stem reaching up to his ear. He became associated with the Rosicrucians, later founded a religion of his own, "the Metropolitan Church of the Art of Jesus the Conductor." He then issued his own encyclicals and excommunicated his enemies (including the music critic Willy, husband of Colette...