Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with free talent. Recent shows included lectures by Pastor Martin Niemöller, Novelist Edwin (The Last Hurrah) O'Connor, Author-Ethnologist Oliver La Farge and Ambassador James B. Conant. British Labor Boss Hugh Gaitskell's three Harvard lectures on foreign policy were carried in full. Drama Critic Walter Kerr discussed contemporary theater with Playwright Arthur Miller. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. completed a 16-part series on the Constitution and human rights only a week before his death (TIME...
Died. Percy Wyndham Lewis,* 72, irascible and erratic novelist, artist and critic-of-mankind; of a brain tumor; in London. A self-styled "Renaissance Man" and professional dissenter, Lewis launched a lifelong guerrilla warfare on convention in 1914 with Blast, a magazine (co-edited with Poet-Pundit Ezra Pound) which ferociously lit into the popular romanticism ("chaos of Enoch Ardens, laughing Jennys, ladies with pains, good-for-nothing Guineveres"). He introduced cubism to Britain, then characteristically turned on it fiercely when cubism became popular. In a series of novels written in prose as rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr...
...think the critic is a sensitive minority...
...Well, in a way that's true. The critic makes judgements because he hopes to set standards which will lead to more good writing and less poor writing...
...Lindy's and the Stork Club, in the hominy-grits-and-corn-pone belt and around Hollywood and Vine. It is calculatedly lowbrow: and out of the mouths of M.C.s, comedians, interviewers, children's hosts, singers and announcers, it has become a powerful influence on American speech. Critic Clifton Fadiman calls it Televenglish...