Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that your book "critic" will be happy to know that his venomous personal attack upon me [TIME, May 19] was read by me while I was sitting by my gravely ill husband's bedside in Geneva. . . . My only hope, expressed out of my utmost bitterness and despair, is that this alleged critic will find himself one day, alone in a strange city, without friends or family to comfort or sustain, at the bedside of a loved...
Harry Truman, an old critic of what he calls "ham-&-egg" art, had new and harsher words to say about it. Wrote the President, in a letter to culture-mulcher Assistant Secretary of State William Benton...
Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...
...monger," said the former Vice-President and critic of President Truman's foreign policy, "but it is important for Russia to know there is a point beyond which she shouldn't go without awakening resistance. I'm confident our Navy would fight if she got into Turkey because our Navy is determined to get Saudi-Arabian oil. But that oil should be made available to all countries...
Fuseli's most ambitious fantasies, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, led one critic to assert that he "expressed the terror and the evanescence of the world of phantoms, with a power unequaled by any painter that ever lived." His Nightmare (in which a luminous horse's head thrusts between a sleeping lady's bed curtains) was reproduced everywhere, became almost as well-known as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Even to William Blake, who had ten times his genius and only one-tenth his contemporary reputation, Fuseli...