Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been with the Boston Herald in various capacities for more than 15 years, at present filling the post of editorial writer and art editor. In addition, he is a regular Sunday writer for the New York Times, Variety critic for Boston, and columnist for Newspaperman...
Your publisher Mr. Prentice's apology for the writing in TIME [July 16] is evidence, I will be frank, that he is not a literary critic. TIME style not only exists; it stinks. It may be economical, as you suggest, in a narrow, mechanical sort of way, but I'll bet that most people who have read widely and appreciatively in the great tradition of English and American prose from Aelfric to Stein & Joyce will agree that the prose in your magazine is pretty awful...
...Debt. Thirty years before, Winston Churchill, made the scapegoat for the bungling of his Gallipoli expedition plan, had been heaved out of the Admiralty. In the darkest hour of his defeat he received an unexpected visit from a caustic critic. Lord Kitchener. Said "K. of K."; "There's one thing they can't take away from you-the Fleet was ready...
...approved Russian fashion, Critic Zaslavsky called Critic Luce a Fascist and "Goebbels' unconsoled political widow." He added: "This lady does not like us. Furthermore she hates us with a passion which is more African than American in violence...
Last week, a critic armed with explosive moral indignation took dead aim on the underbelly's softest spot. Wrote Editor and Publisher Andrew Kemper Ryan in Philadelphia's weekly Catholic Standard & Times...