Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa at Sorrento, Senator Benedetto Croce, philosopher, literary critic and anti-Fascist intellectual, told U.S. correspondents that Italy's best immediate hope would be the abdication of King Vittorio Emanuele and his son Umberto, followed by a regency under 72-year-old Marshal Pietro Badoglio for Umberto's son, the six-year-old Prince of Naples...
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, as interpreted by Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic, gladdened Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson, who observed: "I suspect there may be some protests from adolescents about the removal of all traces of imminent sexuality from the work of a man who has been for so long their especial comfort. But I am sure that many musicians of my age will be glad to welcome [the composer] back to the adult fold...
...church in the background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin's Girl in Green and Rose (see cut), a smoldering, libidinous canvas of a young woman en déshabillé, described in the Crowninshield catalog by Critic Lionello Venturi as a matter of "fascinating nacreous nuances." A Rouault-illustrated book brought...
...musical world never forgave Ole Bull for his ready attention to the lower musical tastes. One of the most phenomenally gifted fiddlers who ever lived, he ignored the classic repertory with a persistence that drove critics to fury. He liked to offer his own grand fantasia on Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...
...Bull arrived in the U.S. Pushed the New York Herald's critic: "This extraordinary being-this Ole Bull-will produce an excitement throughout he Republic unlike anything that ever took place in our day. He is young-unmarried [sic]-tall and elegantly formed -as beautiful as the Apollo. . . ." One reporter asked Ole what master he had studied under. Said Ole, with a serene stare: "God, the Infinite!" At a Washington concert a Congressman from Alabama rose in the midst of one of Ole's improvisations and shouted: "None of your highfalutin, but give us Hail Columbia, and bear...