Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exile's Return) Cowley took one of Chapel Hill's best-known grads down a peg. Thomas (Look Homeward, Angel) Wolfe was not the great modern American novelist (as claimed by none other than Novelist William Faulkner), in fact rates below both Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, argued Critic Cowley, adding: "Wolfe never broke out of writing expanded lyric poems about himself...
...acting persevered over a plot that did wonders for the hero's stammer but never overcame its own. Though he won praise for his playing of The Young Stranger in the movies (TIME, Jan. 28, 1957)-which he played first on TV-Jim MacArthur's closest critic was "utterly amazed" at last week's performance. Glowed proud mother Helen Hayes (who squeezed in most of the show on a dressing-room TV set between her cues in Broadway's T ime Remembered): "It was extraordinary. I feel self-conscious talking about...
...critic-gossipist in Hearst's New York Journal-American and 250 other U.S. papers, pudgy Jack O'Brian, 43, writes a daily column that is lively, readable, and regularly a thorn in all sides of the TV industry. Last week, violating one of show business' most sacred taboos, NBC's Comedian Steve Allen took a deep breath and told Critic O'Brian off. He filled six columns of Manhattan's Greenwich Village weekly Village Voice in lambasting O'Brian as "the only TV critic in the nation who is rude, inaccurate, unchristian...
Columnist O'Brian did not see it that way. "Remember, all this doesn't make me angry." he told an interviewer, "even though it's an attack. I think the whole thing is unhealthy. It's sick, that's what it is. Allen gets criticism and turns on the critic. You know what this all means, don't you? It means 'Jack O'Brian doesn't like my show.' " Would Critic O'Brian reply to Critic Allen in his daily column? Said he staunchly: "I'm not even...
Coincidentally, By Love Possessed also features a rape case, and plenty of legal technicalities. But beneath the excitements and the pyrotechnics of the law, there lies, for Lawyer-Hero Arthur Winner, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions." On publication, critics almost unanimously praised the book-and some wildly overpraised. Now a small reaction has set in, led by Dwight Macdonald, who in Commentary denounced Cozzens as a tool of the "Middlebrow Counter-Revolution.'' With much justice, Critic Macdonald ridicules the involved Cozzens style. With far less justice, he maintains-in a dubious...