Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel's brief fling as a patriotic supporter of the Administration's war effort was definitely over. Once again he was out in front as the President's fiercest critic. One month after the Tribune's Pearl Harbor pledge to let bygones be bygones for unity's sake, it announced abruptly that, if its isolationist ideas had been followed, "the nation would have been spared much of the bitter news of recent days." Colonel Knox's rival News fished up a few Tribune pearls from pre-Pearl Harbor days...
...audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House what language they thought opera should be sung in. What a question! Operas are given there as they are written, in French, German, Italian. But last week the Metropolitan Opera Guild collected a jury in its famed red-and-gold interior. Critic Olin Downes argued for opera in the composer's language. Ex-Prima Donna Florence Easton pleaded for translation into the audience's tongue. Metropolitan Stars John Brownlee and John Carter sang parts of Rossini's good-humored The Barber of Seville, first in Italian (hushed attention), then...
...lecturer was Robert Coffin, a hulking, fat-jowled Belgian swing critic known to hot jazz devotees as author of the first serious book on the subject: Aux Frontières du Jazz (1930). Critic Goffin both looked and sounded authoritative. "Tiger Rag" said he, "is the second tableau of a quadrille I used to dance to in Brussels as a boy." Phonograph records illustrated his points...
...night and comment intelligently on both. This calls for immediate reactions to an art form existing only for a short period of time. A high aesthetic standard, a delight in the whole range of the theatre, snap judgment, and a scholarly background--these are the requisites for the drama critic. No wonder that the critic retreats into individualistic displays of bon mots and wit in his reviews...
Clausewitz for Autumn. His favorite author, ironically, is the great German military critic, Karl von Clausewitz. One passage which he quotes with especially affectionate comment might well have been his text last week, as he reviewed the lessons of Autumn 1941 before doing his home work for the final exams in Summer...