Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secondary schools there will continue to be a great need for people with good intellectual training. It is the historian or critic who can inspire students in his field, not the classroom administrators...
...they doing the right thing for Prince Charlie?" wondered the Sunday Express, but the question did not seem to get much of a rise out of Britons. Sending Charles to Cheam was not quite the prescription of that young critic of royalty. Lord Altrincham, who "would have liked to have seen him enter a state-run primary school." But it was certainly more democratic than the old royal custom that prescribed for all heirs to the throne a private education under governess and tutors in the palace schoolroom...
...critic of the royal family, Lord Altrincham is both a Tory and a monarchist. Last week an Englishman who is neither joined the argument. Young Playwright John Osborne, whose Look Back in Anger was scheduled to open in Manhattan this week and whose sulky bad manners have made him the current darling of London's West End intellectuals, got off an angry outburst in the highbrow monthly Encounter. Describing the royal family as "a ridiculous anachronism" and "the gold filling in a mouthful of decay," Osborne denounced "Queen worship" as "the national swill" and no fit occupation for Socialists...
...thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot, and the Trujillo critic will probably live...
...afterglow of the success of last year's Perry Como and Dinah Shore shows, the TV networks are taking a high shine to popular singers in jumbo productions. In fact, the TV season threatens to be, in the phrase of one critic, a case of "the bland leading the bland." TV's Pepsi-Cola girl, Polly Bergen, got mired down in embarrassingly labored exchanges with a shrill, scenery-chewing "panel" of other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color...