Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methods the Roman Catholic church has instilled in the minds of its members a hatred for the Russians that hasn't been altered even by the huge part the Russians played in winning this war in Europe. It is beyond mere coincidence that when I ask each individual critic of our ally what his religion is the answer is always "Catholic...
Failure & Success. "She effaces the memory of stouter prima donnas," wrote one critic during Maggie Teyte's barnstorming years with the Chicago Opera, the Boston and La Scala Opera Companies. Her favorite roles as Melisande in Pelleas and Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled...
...average U.S. student is "overeducated . . . one who thinks he knows all the answers." The critic was Chicago's Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Added Dr. Embree: the average U.S. undergraduate lacks curiosity, has little or no understanding of his own motivations, is intellectually unfit to have a vote in world affairs. The cause: too much natural science, "too much fealty to the rote of the textbook." Suggested improvement: more attention to the social and psychological sciences...
...Critic Edmund Wilson has made a book of his friend's glittering, tragic life. It is in part a collection of essays, poems and letters written about Fitzgerald by his admirers (including Poets T. S. Eliot and John Peale Bishop, Critic Paul Rosenfeld, Novelist Wescott, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe). But the bulk of The Crack-Up consists of selections from Fitzgerald's own essays, stories, notebooks and letters, including the famed scarifying confession (published in Esquire in 1936) in which Fitzgerald explained his decline from high-ranking novelist to Hollywood hack. The result...
Like his friends, Fitzgerald caroused freely. But unlike most of them he also produced novels and short stories with passion and vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance...