Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four cops, warned in advance, followed chubby Critic Bernard DeVoto into a Cambridge, Massachusetts bookstore. So did a Civil Liberties Union lawyer. Then followed a neatly planned little routine. Critic DeVoto asked for a copy of Lillian Smith's Southern novel, Strange Fruit, which had been suppressed by Boston booksellers and banned by Cambridge's police chief for mixing a stubby Anglo-Saxon word into a serious study of miscegenation (TIME, April 10). For his $2.75, Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking...
Canadian judges, rarely criticized, even more rarely deign to answer critics. Last week octogenarian Justice Robert Maxwell Dennistoun of Manitoba's Appeal Court took exception to the rule, turned on a critic...
When, in 1935, the San Francisco Musical Association cast about for someone to rescue the San Francisco Symphony from complete financial and artistic collapse, Monteux was suggested for the job. He was then guest-conducting at the-Hollywood Bowl. "The only difference between Toscanini and Monteux," New York Times Critic Olin Downes is reported to have remarked, "is in the waistline." San Francisco took the waistline, soon found that it surrounded one of the most sensitive, civilized, versatile and shrewdly practical men who ever wielded a baton...
...dominated by fascist-minded Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, last week ordered all agencies to stop delivering or accepting news for the United Press and its Argentine subsidiary, Prensa Unida. This was intended to hit the foreign news pages of La Prensa, the Government's most telling critic, and other papers. It was also a blow at the influence of the U.S., which Colonel Peron considers the principal obstacle in the way of his ambition to organize an Argentine-dominated bloc in southern South America...
Featured in last week's Jacobowsky and the Colonel was Hollywood's pretty Annabella, wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power. The French cinemactress-who rose to fame in Director René Clair's Le Million -was making her Broadway debut. Critic Rascoe charged from the show to his typewriter, abruptly started off: "An incredibly talentless actress who calls herself Annabella made me so spiritually ill last night that you can stop, right now, if you want to. . . . In my whole life (I give you my word) I have never seen or heard an actress botch up good lines...