Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your review of this truly fine motion picture is not only repulsive; it's insulting-not to Roman Catholics, but to all human beings. Contrary to your movie critic's beliefs and those of the late Dr. Freud, the universe does not revolve around...
Either your so-called literary critic hasn't read the Overstreet books or is incapable of understanding them. The Overstreets' writings are based on sound findings in psychology and psychiatry. They aren't filled with quasi-religious...
...Soho hipsters who swelter and suffocate for it in the Cat's Whisker, the Côte d'Azur or The Two I's, skiffle is brand-new; to jazz critics and non-skiffling professional musicians, it is old-"a bastardized, commercialized form of the real thing," said one critic, "watered down to suit the sickly orange-juice tastes of musical illiterates...
...sumi-ink splash and brush strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom on an aged plum tree." Then he exclaimed in admiration: "Tessai became a dragon...
...after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including in his book much of Ovid's remaining love poetry. Critic Highet assembles an ingratiating montage of seven Latin poets (Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibiillus. Ovid. Juvenal), combining samples of the poetry, biographical sketches, bits of social history and a latter-day tour of his heroes' haunts...