Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" he once wrote in an autobiographical verse, and most eminent Victorians would have agreed. Critic John Ruskin put him "first of my hundred authors." Solemn statesmen referred to his Books of Nonsense in Parliament. "Sich," sighed Lear to his Learishly spelled diary, "is phame...
...Last Antony and Cleopatra, in 1937, ran for five performances, was greeted by Critic John Mason Brown: "Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra-and sank...
...Lost Moment (Walter Wanger; Universal-International), a puzzling screen version of Henry James's fine novelette, The Aspern Papers, would doubtless-if it had James himself for a critic-be delicately strangled in the ineluctable tendrils of his famous final manner...
Rebecca West is a novelist of note ( The Thinking Reed), a distinguished literary critic (The Strange Necessity). But, above all, as she proved in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), she is one of the greatest of living journalists...
...Woman Writer. When, at the end of World War I, Rebecca West became the book critic of the New Statesman and Nation, she was already a minor celebrity. She wrote with an authority beyond her years or experience in a prose in which, at its best, a logic of music was magnificently mated to a logic of ideas. At its worst, it was excessive and overblown. Sometimes she took time out from her breadwinning chores to write a novel (Harriet Hume). Sometimes she collaborated on satirical sketches (Lions and Lambs, The Rake's Progress) with Cartoonist David...