Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of her government, he carried the key to Victoria's dispatch boxes, served as his wife's guide, mentor, confidant and private secretary, drafted her state orders and supervised all her affairs.. "He is King to all intents and purposes,'' muttered one disgruntled critic...
...treasures is that it remains the best example of the work of Alexander Jackson Davis, one of the most versatile of architects, who designed state capitols (Indiana, North Carolina) and institutions (the first New York University), but preferred to build houses for people who felt, as one contemporary critic put it, that "there is something wonderfully captivating in the idea of a battlemented castle." Destruction of his Walnut Wood would leave only one other of Davis' major Gothic mansions still standing and unaltered: Lyndhurst, the marble residence of the late Jay Gould in Tarrytown, N.Y., now owned by Gould...
...What I can't understand," muttered one London art critic last week, "is that here's a nation that has just launched the first satellite, and yet they have sent us an exhibition 50 years old." Said a gallery manager: "It's like opening up the pages of an issue of Studio from the Edwardian era." The occasion was the first exhibition of Soviet graphic art in London since the honeymoon days of World War II. After critics had a good look at the 130 works by 14 artists, picked by the Union of Artists...
...only drawback to Editor Keyser's big joke was that the subjects of his phony stories failed to see it. Democrat Mike Birmingham promptly sued Republican Keyser-a longtime critic of his administration-for $1,000,000 damages. A second suit (for $500,000) was filed by Chairman of the County Property Review Board Christian H. Kahl, whom Keyser had playfully reported to be "hiding out in the sand dunes near Ocean City." County State's Attorney Frank H. Newell has summoned a grand jury to consider criminal proceedings against the editor. Last week, as other victims...
...less a literary critic than Nikita S. Khrushchev has called this book "wrong at the root" and misrepresenting life "as through a crooked mirror." Before the Russian censors caught on to this view, the Moscow magazine Novy Mir published the novel in three installments last year. At the time, the world jumped with astonishment: a Russian novelist had not only written critically of the Soviet regime, but had done so bluntly, sarcastically, rudely. With Poland and Hungary threatening to tip the boat, Not by Bread Alone had a special menace because 1) it roused wild excitement among both intellectuals...