Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebecca West was an actress first, a novelist and critic later. She was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, in County Kerry. She took the name Rebecca West from a part she played in Ibsen's Rosmersholm; her career came from the fact that she preferred her words to someone else...
...publisher's Christmas party in Manhattan, the Devil, who is everywhere, found himself cornered by a critic from a Little Magazine. The critic thought that the Devil looked too forceful for an intellectual, too thoughtful for a book publisher, and decided at first that he must be somebody high up in cinema. So he began to tell him about the esoteric first novel he hoped to sell to Hollywood...
...Certainly not," said the critic. "Have...
...What?" asked the critic...
...what?" asked the critic...