Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finest study to date of the Chicago school is included in the monumental book, Space, Time & Architecture by Swiss-born Architectural Critic Sigfried Giedion, which has just reached its third printing (Harvard University Press; $5). Giedion finds the roots of the Jenney and Sullivan skyscraper, not in the showpieces of past European and U.S. architecture, but in such useful and noble feats of engineering as glass-surfaced markets and department stores, or the cast-iron-pillared warehouses of the St. Louis water front...
...motion picture industry will speak on the problems of war facing people in the arts, especially the films. Melvyn Douglas will represent the actors. Garson Kauin the film directors, and Richard Ford director of the British Library of information will speak in place of Bosley Crowther New York "Times" critic...
Thus the impression of Southern California architecture gained by a sharp-eyed Easterner (Critic Edmund Wilson) in 1931. In 1942 he would have to acknowledge another side of the picture. In the past decade, particularly, California hillsides have been burgeoning with more up-to-the-minute architectural neatness than any comparable area...
...18th Century is Critic Kronenberger's century, and at its best his book succeeds brilliantly in recapturing its modes and moods. But that century still troubles him. Intellectually he is fascinated by it. But all that is humane in him, and that is a great deal, is still revolted by its superficiality, its grotesquely caparisoned brutality, and the vast half-buried body of its human misery...
Fragile and flowerlike, Actress Rainer proved appealing enough at moments, but she was one step ahead of Barrie all the way. She was not just Cinderella, but one of the babes in the wood and one of the orphans of the storm: in Critic John Anderson's phrase, "a career waif...