Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lone Critic. Only one influential voice, the newspaper L'Action, patterned after Paris' outspoken L'Express, dared speak up against this autocratic trend. Last week Bourguiba abruptly silenced that voice...
...insipid secretary who, it turns out at the end, is going to marry the hero after all. And they ought to write the moral issue out of the plot, because they handle it very clumsily, and because it does not belong in their play anyway. (A very wise old critic has remarked that sleazy sentimentality and pseudo-morality are the two worst vices of the commercial theater...
...biggest event of the forum season was supposed to be a publlic reading by Fugitive Poets in honor of John Crowe Ransom, Kenyon College poet-critic who turned 70 earlier this year. The Fugitives wrote poetry as undergraduates at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the mid-Twenties, under the tutelage of Ransom, then a young member of the school's faculty. After Ransom's moving reading the night before, four other Fugitives and two guests poets read from their poetry and patted each other on the back. After a while, the latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group...
...breaking new trails, European gallerygoers are now excitedly discovering. On tour is Lipchitz' biggest retrospective show, 116 sculptures covering nearly half a century's work. "One has to go back to Rodin and beyond that to Michelangelo to be able to match this experience," raved one Rotterdam critic. Dutch Sculptor Leo Braat said, "This work is anything but a play of forms; it is an act of faith, a revelation.". In Basel, Switzerland, where the exhibition opened last month, critics greeted Lipchitz as "the greatest cubist among sculptors." Ahead for the show lie Munich, Dortmund, Brussels, Rome, Paris...
Authors who "understand women" may do so because they have learned first to understand men-and to know what a woman must contend with in her particular time and society. Author Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S theater critic and an authority on 18th century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope...