Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 52, literary critic (the New Yorker) whose clinically detailed, bestselling Memoirs of Hecate County brought him national renown, and fourth wife Elena Thornton Wilson, 41 (voted one of the "Ten Most Glamorous Women of 1946"): their first child, a daughter; in Boston...
...Garneau, Montreal critic and devoted apostle of French letters, sounded the first sharp note. With apprehension he had watched the rise of such French Canadian writers as Gabrielle Roy, whose Bonheur d'occasion (Accidental Happiness) became a U.S. best-seller as The Tin Flute (TIME, March 17). Her story of a Montreal slum showed unmistakable U.S. influences. Wrote Garneau, in the 1946 literary supplement of Montreal's Le Canada: "We cannot escape the zone of influence of a mighty literary power. If it is not France it will be America." French Canadian authors, said he, should turn...
...Charbonneau's Les Editions de I'Arbre had a free hand in launching French Canadian novels that might otherwise have gone to Paris. Quebec wants to keep the business. French publishers, on the other hand, squirm as Quebec-printed books run into big editions. Said a Paris critic: "[French] Canadians should be ostracized. They are going to ruin our market...
...Navy rule had always been: no talk of women, politics or religion in the wardroom. But for two years now, Annapolis midshipmen had been sponsoring something called the Wardroom Panel, where such guests as Navy critic Rear Admiral (ret.) Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...
...Critics struggled for just the right words. One thought that Lionel Barrymore's etchings (Purdy's Basin and San Pedro) had a "professional touch." The gallery director felt obliged to say that Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien "has definite promise. . . . There's an oriental simplicity about her watercolor, Autumn Leaves, which many artists work for years to capture." One critic summed up: "I hate to hurt their feelings, but almost all of the work ... is fairly...