Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa of Bernard Berenson '87, noted art critic, will be left to Harvard upon Berenson's death, John Coolidge, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, said yesterday. Berenson is in his early nineties...
...Newspaper coverage has not kept pace with the upsurge of public interest in the arts, wrote Theodore H. Parker, longtime critic of all arts for the Hartford Courant (circ. 99,812). "Theater, music, fine arts, dance reviewers are still too often the products of chance. True, not all newspapers need a full-time critic in one or all these fields. But the choice of even a part-time critic, or occasional reviewer, does not always get the care that would be taken in assigning a man to other specialized beats...
...Bonn University, he defied Hitler early in the Nazi regime, but since World War II Barth has angered many by his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism, his sharply anti-U.S. attitude. His antagonist last week was U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, himself a sometime left-of-center critic of U.S. policy. The issue for which Niebuhr takes Barth to task in the pages of the Christian Century: Barth's failure to raise his voice against Russia's bloody suppression of the Hungarian people...
Impresario Hoffnung hopes soon to introduce his music to the U.S. live, by staging a similar production in Manhattan. Meanwhile, his record remains the funniest musical joke in years. "A breath of fresh air," said one London critic. "I admired particularly the coloratura attack and secure intonation," said another, speaking of a vacuum-cleaner player...
...just a couple of guys bowling," complained TV Critic John Crosby when he watched the show for the first time. "The pins go down-or don't go down, as the case might be-and that's about it." But like millions of other televiewers, Crosby kept right on watching. "The darn thing does have a sort of morbid interest," he discovered. "First one guy's ahead, then the other one. Pretty soon you find yourself rooting for one or the other...