Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Caradoc Evans, sixtyish, Welsh novelist and playwright (Taffy), bitter critic of his own countrymen; of pneumonia; in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was frequently burned in effigy and denounced from Welsh pulpits for his anti-Welsh sentiments (example: "A Welsh choir's preliminary cough is often the most musical part of its performance"), was also so secretive that his own wife did not know his exact...
...Ottawa Journal, usually a moderate critic, set the Tory line of attack with an editorial that went after Minister McNaughton hammer & tongs. Said the Journal: "General McNaughton's position . . . is highly vulnerable. He entered the Cabinet to do a particular job; he remains . . . to do a diametrically opposed job-declaring the while his disbelief in the thing he is doing [sending conscripts overseas]. Whatever that invites, it doesn't invite confidence...
Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in Ecuador. In a speech before the town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...
...collectors of art-and of quotation marks-a critic-collector-connoisseur of modern art has compiled a booklet of such pungent, provocative aphorisms: Of Art-Plato to Picasso (Wittenborn; $1.50), published last week. Compiler Albert Eugene Gallatin, a painter himself, knows well the vicissitudes of collecting. His own famed "Museum of Living Art" is one of the finest collections of 20th-century...