Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of these is called the H.R.S. Rag, and is published by the Hot Record Society of New York. Its editor, Heywood Hale Broun, is a collector and critic whose work has included the tough assignment of going to New Orleans and recording the music of some of the oldest jazz artists in the country. Besides this he's a budding newspaperman (sportswriter on PM) and has the right idea on how to put a paper together. Every issue contains record reviews and feature articles by critics and musicians who were all listening to this stuff back in the days...
...pretentious, but for me at least, it fulfills its pretensions. As commentators have pointed out, the whole work is steeped in passion, even bitterness. It is a sort of Brahms confessional. I myself am increasingly impressed with the first movement, which, in the words of an eminent critic, starts out as though it had been going on for a long time and we were just becoming aware of it, and then builds up through long sustained periods to what is really a titanic climax. On the other hand, I am less and less impressed with the finale, because while...
...even the severest critic of pomp & circumstance could accuse the Troop of being mere dress-up soldiers. On the staff of its guidon are silver bands for service in major battles from Trenton and Princeton in the Revolution to the Meuse-Argonne in World War I. Regular National Guard enlistment is for three years; City Troopers enlist for seven. Rookies find advancement slow, the selection of officers meticulous. No man can hope to become a corporal before eight years, a sergeant before ten. John C. Groome Jr., a coal company president who was the Troop's captain until...
Engaged. Marisa ("Gogo") Schiaparelli, 21, beauteous, blue-eyed daughter of Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli; and Robert Berenson, 27, Grace Line travel executive, second cousin of famed expatriate Art Critic Bernard Berenson; in Manhattan...
Harley Granville-Barker, noted English dramatist and Shakespearean critic, is giving currently a series of six lectures on Shakespeare's "Othello," as visiting lecturer in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's course. English 23, on Shakespeare. The lectures will be open to members of the University on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week, and next, in Emerson Hall D. at 12 o'clock...