Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus E. M. Forster, a British novelist who wrote one great book (A Passage to India), speared with surgical neatness the essential quality of any great critic. His words were an obituary on his friend Roger Fry, an art critic who died...
...above: and an apology generally results a few months later. For instance, a while back George had some rather disparaging remarks to make about The One Inimitable Band Around Today, for which he subsequently apologized. Now that's all fine, as one seldom sees such downright honesty in a critic. However, it seems to me that George would save himself a lot of word-eating if he'd only refrain from his occasional excursions into adolescent bombast...
George Frazier, '33, record critic for Mademoiselle ("The Magazine for Smart Young Women" who can't think farther than the next week-end party), has the following to say about Charlie Barnet: "I happen to think that Barnet's records are uniformly stinking. . . I can't tolerate Barnet because he and the music he sponsors are doing irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz." This is all based on the fact that Charlie Barnet "has had the colossal bad taste to ape the one inimitable band around today and the result is something cheap and disgusting." Needless...
...Pedro Henriquez-Urena, distinguished South American poet and critic, will begin his series of free, public lectures, as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, tomorrow night, speaking on the topic "The Discovery of the New World by the Imagination of Europe," in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum, at 8:15 o'clock...
...Henriquez-Urena is widely known as a poet, literary critic, teacher, and public official. He is a leading authority on Spanish verse, and an outstanding interpreter of Spanish America to the outside world. He has been a high public education official in the Dominican Republic and in Mexico...