Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Herald Tribune Music Critic Paul Henry Lang is noted for long, learned phrases, but in one of his reviews last week he was reduced to a simple, heartfelt "Whew!" Object of Lang's whewing: the finest Don Giovanni in recent memory, and probably the most all-round satisfying show yet mounted by General Manager Rudolf Bing at the Metropolitan Opera...
William Hawthorne, the Professor of Engineering of Cambridge University, will visit in January. Nadia Boulanger, Paris music instructor; Marion Moore, poetess; Joan Bennet, literary critic, and H.S. Bennett, medieval historian, will reside in Adams in the spring...
...last week in the barber shop of Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel, nobody in the U.S. was as well qualified to enjoy its subtleties as bulky, greying Albert Anastasia-onetime Lord High Executioner of Brooklyn's Murder Inc. But this time Al was straight man rather than critic...
Died. Mary Gunning (Maguire) Colum, 70, "incorrigibly Irish" critic (From These Roots) and autobiographer (Life and the Dream), guest professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...
This is more than an echo of Joyce, it is a statement of O'Faolain's own grievances; while this plaint may induce sympathy for both of them, it is also an indication why O'Faolain is a sorry critic of alien literature...