Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News Drama Critic John Chapman, after viewing the chichi opening of Tonight at 8:30 (see THEATER), let go a loaded paragraph at first-night audiences: "They lit matches and smoked in the aisles . . . haughtily ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe...
...While in San Francisco, a leading critic called the debut of violinist Tossy Spivakovsky as the greatest since that, 30 years...
...critic of the President's Commission (see above), Taylor never complains about swollen enrollments. He wants as many students as he can get: "If they want to come, tell them to get in touch with us- telephone, write, or send a telegram." For adult students he can't accommodate, he has set up four "neighborhood colleges" in Louisville public libraries. He has plans for putting college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says...
...Brady had refined her techniques to the point of excellence, while keeping her pictures childishly simple In content. The combination was as appetizing as pie à la mode. With her first Paris show (TIME, May 13, 1946), O'Brady was hailed by one critic as "the only great painter of the New World...
...many, bristle-bearded Charles Ives is the most original-even if not the most skillful-of all U.S. composers. One New York critic once called his second piano sonata, Concord Mass. 1840-60, "the greatest music composed by an American." He was writing music with strange, exciting rhythms and polytonal harmonies before Stravinsky and Schonberg...