Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...score was by an old hand at setting Stein to song, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude's Four Saints in Three Acts. Since the business on stage (involving among others Ulysses S. Grant, Thaddeus Stevens, Daniel Webster and an angel) was pretty complicated, Thomson kept his music harmonically simple, rarely dissonant and sometimes hymnlike, and his adroit handling of the voices added some new inflections to Steinese...
...worker, he is ruthless with the tricksters of the trade. If anyone tries to out-trade him for the last penny, Rank usually manages to beat him out of the last ha'penny. And Rank is also ruthlessly fair, yet does not always take kindly to criticism. To a newspaper critic, he once roared: "Don't you know, when you write that kind of thing, that Christ is looking over your shoulder?" Yet Rank bears no rancor for Cinemactor James Mason, who thinks that Rank's monopolistic operations will eventually wreck Britain's movie industry. Recently...
Also Pulitzered: New York Times Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, for distinguished correspondence (from Russia last year); Williams College President James Phinney Baxter III, for Scientists Against Time (history). The best biography, decided the judges, was The Autobiography of William Allen White (TIME, March 18, 1946), whose author died in 1944, at 75. One significant sign of the times: the prize for distinguished work as a reporter went to the New York World-Telegram's single-minded Frederick Woltman, who keeps a close and watchful eye on left-wing activities; he won the citation for his periodic pieces...
England's famed Author E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) is neither musician nor music critic; but he is a music-lover. Last week at Harvard, speaking to 700 musicians, professors and critics, he offered words of hope to jaded music critics...
First of the rather abashed group of judges to arrive was Mr. Lawrence Dame, art critic of the Boston Herald and by the time the second member of the panel, an editor of the CRIMSON, had been led to the table, Mr. Dane was adequately ensconced behind a glass of dry sherry and an Avocado salad. The Crimeditor ordered "some Scotch, never mind the food...