Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sings," an unkind critic has said of Michiko, "but not well. Her fans are there to look, not listen." Michiko's looks have sold 100,000 copies of her first Victor recording (Banana Boat Song, Venezuela) in a single month, and have touched off a deluge of fan letters, mostly from teenagers. Like France's Juliette Greco-whom she strikingly resembles-she has become the darling of the intelligentsia, who have celebrated her in ponderous prose. Says one literary critic: "Her primitive songs match men's desire to escape the confused mechanism of today's living...
...well as common folk beyond the esthetic perimeters, were stewing and snarling about a 6-ft. portrait of Prince Philip, the work of Italy's able Pietro Annigoni and the most debated sensation of the Royal Academy's new exhibition. Cried the London Daily Mall's critic: "If he really is like that, I shouldn't like to meet him in the dark." Rasped the Daily Mirror: "A very good pavement artist's job." "I wonder what the Queen thinks of [it]," mused the Star's observer. "It is of a husband...
Then occurred the kind of event which her second husband, Critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow considered decisive to the character of a writer-the wound for which a life of writing must compensate. In the flu epidemic of 1918 Mary McCarthy's parents died, and she was an orphan in a strange bed in a strange city-Minneapolis. Mary and her brothers were condemned to razorstrop beatings in the downstairs lavatory by a hated uncle. Her Uncle Myers is now dead, but the narrative of life under his hateful roof (presents were taken away because...
Whenever a book or a play or a motion picture which deals with a personality at all out of the ordinary comes along, some sociology-happy critic inevitably calls it a case study. Such has been the fate of The Strange One-- and nothing could be more inaccurate. Although its central character is clearly a sadist, this film is not a piece of pseudo-science; it is just a motion picture, and a very good...
...play in Manhattan closed last week after only three performances, but it was a smash hit. Students in the religious drama program of Union Theological Seminary closed their six-play season with a production of a play by a German Evangelical pastor that moved Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times to soaring words ("stunning," "remarkable") and packed the seminary auditorium with standees...