Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, his book of criticism is distinctly unsatisfying, and O'Faolain himself has inadvertantly supplied the reason. In writing about Joyce, he asserts that "all criticism is a form of autobiography." This is a dubious statement, but The Vanishing Hero bears it out. O'Faolain is an Irish man of letters who cares very much about Ireland; for all his intellect, he is something of a provincial. This provinciality, and the parallel concerns for country, are assets in his short stories, but they make him an extremely limited critic. The more remote his subject is from Ireland, the worse...
...Having performed a new work once." wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's able music critic, Alfred Frankenstein, "conductors disown it for good. Hence arises an infuriating paradox: the best way to kill a modern piece is to preside over its premiere...
...echoed by composers who get commissions for new works but not repeat performances, partly inspired the Ford Foundation last week to appropriate $315,000 for the commissioning, playing and repeat performances of new symphonic works, and the performances of ten contemporary U.S. operas (by the New York City Opera). Critic Frankenstein found the provision for symphonic performances insufficient. Briskly turning himself into a one-man foundation, he called on conductors to repeat works they had introduced during the last five years, offered a $100 prize for the conductor who repeated the most...
...eight campuses, but will supervise the building of two more, which the regents approved last week. He will have to make provisions for an expected enrollment of 90,000 by 1970. But more important to his scattered facultymen is the kind of person Clark Kerr is−a constant critic of the Organization Man, of the cult of "factory sociology," of all those who would place security and serenity above free enterprise, whether economic or academic. "Freedom," he once wrote, "has some costs, it is true, but in our eagerness to eliminate these costs we can eliminate freedom itself. What...
Haberler has a reputation as a critic of central economic planning and protection, and is a strong advocate of free markets. He will celebrate the inauguration of the new chair in an address here...