Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened its doors in 1909, the Boston Opera House boasted that it had the most spacious stage, the handsomest appointments, the most advanced stage machinery in the business. The curtain rose on a magnificent performance of Ponchielli's La Gioconda. "In the future," said one visiting New York critic, "Bostonians will no longer come to New York for opera; instead, New Yorkers will be coming to Boston." But Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, then staging grand opera at his Manhattan Opera House in successful competition with the Metropolitan, made another kind of prophecy. He noted that the hulking red brick...
...great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought...
...madness in all this mad comedy was that Gogol himself thought he was defending the system he undermined. One critic got the point that Gogol had been trying to make. "Preacher of the lash," he called the muddled genius. After his first success. Gogol left Russia in a huff, spent twelve nostalgic years in self-imposed exile. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, slowly developed a religious mania and fell into the hands of a fanatic Russian Orthodox priest who persuaded Gogol that art was sinful. Thus an artist who all his life had been dissatisfied with...
...Eliot's best poetry, and again appears in this book, in which Eliot shows that he is like other men. too, in his predilection for shoptalk. In these pieces, which range in time from 1926 to the present and in subject matter from Virgil to Kipling, the poet-critic is talking shop about the poet's trade. But, Eliot being Eliot, there is also an underlying concern with the larger meaning...
...Critic Hartman listed...