Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCormick, Britain's Beverley Baxter, M.P., drama critic (the Evening Standard) and ex-managing editor (the London Daily Express), observed: "As a journalist, I salute him . . . As a Britisher, I would not weep if he got caught up in his own presses and added a fifth color to his cartoons...
...audience had never seen Orpheus treated so splendidly. Veteran Salzburg critic Max Graf was not being intentionally sarcastic when he said that Bruno Walter's severe 1932 version "was only greater vocally...
...Traditional critic's rejoinder: "You don't have to be a good cook to judge an omelet...
...time or another, during the past 45 years, almost every critic or lover of English letters has rubbed his eyes and recognized the genius of Walter De la Mare (rhymes with beyond compare). Then, like a man waking at dawn and suddenly sure about something unusual, the reader has either turned over and drifted off again or has quickly lost his hunch-whatever it was-in daytime business...
...ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They do their grim talking in dining rooms and nurseries which the author hardly ever describes, but which Critic Edward Sack-ville-West has neatly termed "embowered, rook-enchanted concentration camps." The persevering reader will find that the sum total of all this artifice, melodrama and incredible behavior is a warm, witty, profoundly tragic portrait of married and family life...