Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maxwell Anderson, lambaster of drama critics (TIME, March 11), had a drama critic in the family. Son Quentin, 34, was new play appraiser for the highbrow literary quarterly Kenyon Review. On his father's recent troubles, Critic Anderson refused to utter a word...
...Critic Edmund Wilson's first book of fiction since I Thought of Daisy (1929) is the first event of the year which can be described as "literary." For it is more & more unusual for U.S. writers to try to produce literature which is serious without solemnity, entertaining without shallowness, intelligent without owlishness, socially observant without being dogmatically vindictive, morally acute without being mealymouthed...
...housebroken country and a U.S. metropolis (New York City). Unlike pudgy Author Wilson, the nameless narrator is a tall, slim analyst of the influence of social and economic conditions on painting. His neighbors and their doings are also imaginary, despite unmistakable glints and graftings of a well-known U.S. critic, a well-known radio commentator, an up & coming publishing house, a famed literary magazine and book club...
...Critic Wilson's purpose is to develop a subtle and ambitious theme of Evil in our times. His observations are not always adequate to his ultrasophisticated posture; hence the posture; sometimes looks a little self-deceived. But such civilized writing and observation are rare in the U.S. nowadays, and on its merits Memoirs of Hecate County is pretty certainly the best contemporary chronicle, so far, of its place and period. Evil is as vivid through the book as a bushful of snakes...
This little critic went to Loew's; this little critic went to Keith's. This little critic liked heavies; this little critic liked farce. And this little critic went wee wee wee wee into the office of the manager of the Majestio Theatre. This is what he found...