Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City after city hoisted Bienvenida Filarmónica street banners. Seats to the concerts were in such short supply that they were hawked for as much as $30 apiece. Whatever the program, audience and critics were invariably breathless at the Philharmonic's high professional gloss. Wrote a Santiago critic: "The orchestral interpretation is simply marvelous, with a perfection to which Chile has never been exposed." Said a rapt Rio critic: "We never heard such beauty before...
With Lombardy's best on display, a whole overlooked chapter of Italian art was reinserted into history. Milan could not muster the roll of masters that Venice and Florence boast, but it had its own great and distinctive charm. Summed up one Milanese critic: "It is not superb art, but it is never empty...
...subject of a running controversy, at home and abroad. Main reason is that the U.S., setting out to give its interpretation of a new humanism tailored to fit the Atomic Age, decided it could win more friends by using the soft sell. The result has led many a critic to charge that the sell is so soft that it has given a fuzzy picture...
Pleased: None. It was a selection that pleased none. As soon as the choices were announced (and before they were seen), critical guns took aim from the whole perimeter of opinion. Cried New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer: "Our exhibits will indeed be a scandal." Her objections centered on the absence of traditional painters, and the emphasis on abstraction. The New York Daily News predicted an "atrocity," called for reinforcements from Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell...
...cultural relativist, full, as he put it, of "the baleful spirit of the cosmopolite-that uncomfortable consequence of seeing many lands and feeling at home in none." The virtue of that defect, as James saw it, was tolerance. Compared to Twain's polemic, The Art of Travel, Critic Morton Dauwen Zabel's splendidly edited sampling of James's travel pieces on England, France, Italy and the U.S., is sunny-tempered and severely self-controlled...